1 30 pm in irans capital tehran. This is prest tv news. Thanks for joining us. An explosion has struck the turkish capital ancora, wounding two police officers. The interior ministry has called the incident a terrorist attack. It said the attack was conducted by two assailants riding in a vehicle close to the ministry. He said one of the attackers blew himself up and the other was quote neutralized. The targeted district is home to several other ministries and the turkish parliament, which is due to reopen today with address from president recep. Local media also reported gunfire in the korend off district where Emergency Services were in attendance. The iranian president has called for unity among muslims slamming any devisive mood in the muslim world in line with enemys objectives. Right. He told the 37th International Islamic unity conference in tehran that palestine remains the main issue of the islamic world and raling point for muslims. The president called for support for palestinians resistance and took a swipe at attempts to normalize relations with israel. Race said those attempts are being pushed by enemies puppets. The president noted that the u. S. And israel are waging a hybrid war on muslims, also by banking tacfiri crimes and insulting moves against muslim sanctities. He noted, however that muslims must Work Together and use their major potential to secure their place in the merging new world order. Israely warplays have reported the attack targets in the syrian capital damas. Explosions were heard in damascus as media released images of israeli war planes flying overhead with Syrian Air Defense operating to counter the attacks. Details are sketchy at this point as there have been. No official comments yet from syrian authorities. This comes as the Israeli Regime has on numerous occasions struck targets in syria as tel aviv pushes ahead with his acts of aggression. Palestinian resistance factions have organized rally in the bloccated gaza strip marking the 23rd anniversary of the alasa intefada, also known as the second interfather, it was spark by the desecration of the islamic holy shrine. By the then of israeli Prime Minister arias sharon. First of correspondent shanan has more. Palestinians in gaza ried on saturday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the second palestinian popular uprising, which is also known as the antifada. The alaxada was parked by the dissiration of the loxsa mask compound in the occupied alquds in september 2000 by then israeli Prime Minister. Sharon and his bodygards. Palestinians have been holding protests in the eastern part of the gaza strip for the last three weeks, aiming to drawing International Attention to the continued israeli Human Rights Violations in alquds. Hamas movement has warned the Israeli Regime against violations at alacsa mask. 23 years have passed since the beginning of the alaqsah in dufada, and we continue to fight for our holy places. Israeli enemy must not provoke the palestinian people. The equation has not changed and palestine remains an islamic land. Today we assert that we will fight for our rights and we will use all the forms of resistance, including arm resistance to liberate al gores and all of our land. Protesters held placers denouncing the israeli rececration of the mask compound. Of they also denounced the international and arab silence on the unabated israeli crimes in alquds. Intifada means that there is determination for palestinian to face the Israeli Aggression and colonialization and settlement and achieve. In recent weeks the Israeli Forces have increased their presence near the alaqsa mask compound taking advantage of jewish holidays. The antifada continues because of the ongoing Israeli Aggression against alkuds and the alaska mosk. We call on the International Community to exert real pressure on the occupying Israeli Regime to stop its grave violations against the palestinian people. Observers say the Israeli Regime and its regional and International Backers are responsible for the escalation of violence in alqds. 23 years on palestinians say they are determined to free alquds and the alaqsa mask, no matter what sacrifices are required. Ashraf shanan, press tv gaza. Britains government says that it wants to deploy military instructors to ukraine. The British Defense minister grant chaps says that. Opportunity has arisen following a discussion with the British Military chiefs on friday. He says the west of ukraine has better condition for such an opportunity in particular. This comes as the Ukrainian Armed forces are receiving training in britain and other western countries. Britain has provided fiveweek military training courses to around 20,000 ukrainians over the past year. London says the British Defense companies have plans to set up arms factories in ukraine as well. Time now for the news you of this bulletin the pro russia party wins general elections in nato member state slovakia, for almost all votes counted, left this smar st party led by the former premier robert fico, obtained over 23 of the votes. That left the partys main rival, the centris progressive slovakia in second place on 17 of the votes. Robert ficos party now needs to enter a coalition to form a government. Fico seeks to end military aid to ukraine, wants better relations with russia and is critical of the European Union and nato. He is pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to ukraine from slovakia, which has been one of europes biggest doners to kiev as a share with gdp. Gilbert doctoral independent International Affairs analyst joins us from brussels. We also have greg simmons. Is an independent researcher and author who joins from upsala sweden. Gentleman, welcome to you both. Gilbert doctor, our first over to you. So, a pro russia party whos a nato member has won a general election. Uh, what type of impact will that have when it comes to the wider um, i guess war. It would be premature to celebrate this victory, because its a qualified victory. As you remarked, the the voter returns. Show that his party is a minority party, there is no single Majority Party in slovakia, this means that mr. Fico or fizo has the opportunity to form a coalition government, and he will clearly in the coming days and weeks, be reaching out to the many small parties in slovakia to try to achieve a parliamentary majority, his victory informing a. Cabinet is not assured, moreover, what compromises he may have to make on his key points, which you have mentioned, better relations with russia, and to sanctions and no further military assistance to to ukraine, how much of this will get through the negotiating process with Coalition Partners is not yet clear, nonetheless it is of ground make of Ground Breaking importance that a nato country in central europe. A country that has known very well the experience of soviet occupation uh for the cold war period has made this dramatic show in favor of normal relations with russia and against the eu and nato policies that mr. Fizo says are undermining National Sovereignty um what do you what do you think about the unity that exists. Or maybe uh a unity that is being chipped away at in terms of this war as it continues to drag on. I mean, im not too sure whether all countries are united, nato member countries in wanting this war to uh continue in the form and manner that it is, especially, im curious as to what you think about how some these countries, im sure thinking you know the us uh is one of the driving factors behind this war just continuing to uh to continue. Absolutely, the socalled unity is facade, and its a its a rather weak facade by now. I mean, one of the ways the trying to do this is to denounce any kind of Political Party or country that wants to have a reasonable balanced approach to its Foreign Policy, for example, hungary, or now this potential slovakia, by labeling them prorussian parties, but this is not the case, i mean they are pro national, so they try to use us to by. Now we have two things which are going to put an end to this play of unity, one of them is economic matters, because the eu is deindustrializing, its its absolutely enshambles, youve got different inflation, all of these Different Things are biting at it, so financial matters are going to be one, one is going to be those factors related to culture and identity, because slovakia was one of those countries which suffered rather brutal nazi occupation, and now youre having these scenes, for example in the Canadian Parliament when the openly welcoming and greeting nazis from that period, so i mean this is going to be another factor that we things down, so i mean, the the only reason theres unity there is because the us, which as you mention is the main driving factor keeping this war going, is forcing its system of client and vessel states to keep it going at their expense, doctor, the government shut down of the us was barely aver averted, and one of the key things i think was the fact that the ukraine um, i guess financial package was not included uh in that uh package so to speak, in order to avert that shutdown, do you think were looking a possibility that the us support for the ukraine war financially is going to decrease or subside uh maybe substantially . Has been a remote of exercise. The out in question to sorry, youre disconnecting from us, um, what do you think greg simmens, this government shut down that was averted, didnt include that ucranian aid package, whats that a sign up to come, you think . Well, i think the initial signs there, i think the first one of these signs was at the villenious nato summit when they all turned the. Back to zelinsky when he demanded too much, when he tried to prove himself to be a subject of this war and not an object, which he obviously is, and now you have this discontent at home, the democrats are going into an election, which is one year from this november, so theyre very very vulnerable uh politically, and they know it, and so i, i think like all little. Political projects, and as christinger once said, i mean to be an enemy uh of the United States can be dangerous, to be a friend is fatal, and this is what road, this is going down. I think we have you back, the question if you dont mind answering, thank you. Okay, the the point i was, i was trying to make is that this has been a weekend in which democracy exercises in slovakia. And in congress on capital hill have resulted in the will of the people finding path to changing policy. It was unexpected in slovakia, it certainly was unanticipated in the states, that the compromise that was reached between seeingly irreconcilable parties was made precisely by eliminating the eight. Ukraine, that represents in congress, the 55 of americans, in latest polls have said they do not want to support ukraine further, financially or militarily. More to the point, it expresses the will of the 70 or more of registered republicans, oppose such aid. Generally speaking, Foreign Policy matters are the prerogative. The executive and the senate has the obligation and the right to advise and to give its consent. That advise and consent function has been dead letter for the last 20 or. 30 years, so it is remarkable and praiseworthy that some senators have decided to exercise their constitutional obligation to express the opinion of their voters in the single most important matter of Foreign Policy facing the United States today, and it gives me hope that this war will end when the United States does votefass and ends its support for ukraine. All right, thank you very much for that, gilbert doctor independent. Affairs analyst and greg simmens, independent researcher and author. Thank you to you both. With up come to an end for this edition of the news review. In france, the government continues to enforce controversial budget cuts Via Executive decreet, and even as the west economic worws continue to rage. People took to the streets around the country, demanding action. A longrunning housing crisis which has reached new proportions record inflation. Reports from paris. In the past few president ial elections, the number one voter demand has been to address housing issues which are suffered by one out of every four people in france. Many consider the european refugee crisis to be in its eighth year, adding to the National Housing policy. Failure, the failure of western sanctions on russia has helped rent to explode over the last year by over 7 or an entire monthly payment. Major demonstrations were held across the country to demand the government finally take action for adequate and stable shelter. The government isnt proposing any solutions for these people with housing problems or who are completely homeless. These are people work. Who pay their taxes and get still find themselves on the streets . Its a big big problem, but we dont expect anything from this government, given how they responded to the fair requests of the yellow vests. Demonstrators demanded rent freezes and reductions, the taxing of real estate corporations and multiple home owners and the requisitioning of a record 3. 2 million empty lodgings. However, historically there have been few signs that the administration of Emmanuel Macron is interested. In dialogue the 49. 3 the 2024 budget has just been released, but dont expect to see it debated in parliament. President macron has just used his usual executive decreee to force through yet another austerity budget with billions and cuts to Government Services despite the record economic hardship. 493, macron uses executive decree, so the people remain silent. People are scared, and thats now our biggest problem. This f has led to inaction and political apathy, and thats even though i hear everyone around me relating how bad things are going for them and for society. I dont understand their inaction, but i do understand their fear of getting involved, given the massive repression and lack of democracy here. Many say that housing is actually issue which any committed government can fix in just few years, by making laws which favor tenants and not rich landlords, by putting. More taxes into Building Public housing, and by creating more shelters for those with emergency needs. Press tv, paris. Moving now to the chinese city of hange where the asian games are underway joins us from the city with the latest on the competitions there. All right, saman, tell us where we standing overall, and of course where iran stands when it comes to the whole thing. Well cover, if you want to take a look at the latest developments and also the results coming out of different disciplines at the 19th asian games, i should say today, ear ones mens table tennis doubles, both brothers of alaman, namely nusha and nima alaman who had earlier made history by defeating japan, got the bronze medal, you know that after 65 years, he wons uh Table Tennis Team actually made way into semifinal uh after 65 years by defeating japan now. In table tennis doubles also this time again they defeated japan and made another history and got the bronze medal because you know that china, japan and south korea are the top players in terms of the table tennis, so iran this time has secured the bronze medal, so this is huge achievement for ewans national Table Tennis Team, so in rowing i should say heval afseli was made way into the semifinal while hedia khami reached final, moreover, made way into the final we have to wait for the final game and match to uh begin anytime soon to see what results would come out of the final stage for the rowing as well, in archery today, irans National Team stood four, so in uh womens 70 kilogram kurash sports, kurash is a type of traditional wrestling uh which is practice in central asia and that is called kurashh in womens 70 kilograme iranian kurash athletes who had made into the final uh actually backed the silver medal after being defeated by her uh chinese opponent uh today also we expect football and iran to face uh hong kong in football under 23 year old uh football so in all if you want to take a look at the medals table and the Overall Standings of Different Countries i should say that by uh winning 119 gold medal china stands first which is followed by south korea which has already uh backed 30 gold medals and japan. The third place goes to japan which has already grabbed 29 gold medals. Now if you want move back iran currently uh but having already won uh 12 bronze, 12 silver and three gold medals, currently stands at the 11th um actually standing of the whole medals tables here at the 19th asian games. Thank you for that someone we do appreciate it someone from hang, we appreciate it, thanks. Moving on the Us Government shut down averted temporarily, some are breathing a shallow side of relief. A stop gag measure passed by the us house and accepted by the senate has a 45day limit as americans wonder whats next in a divided america . Restvs colin camel has more from the us capital. Congress worked a deal to avert a government shut down in the 11th hour. Americans nervous as it happened. They should just be operating for the the best. The people, there for our safety, for you, safety is the first thing, and then economics is a big part of safety. Add issue how the Us Government should spend its budget. A shutdown happens when congress does not approve Discretionary Spending for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins on october 1st, the us dealing with a divided congress. Because were evenly divided, that actually is reflected in representation in the house and the senate, so in the senate the democrats have majority by two votes and in the house they have majority of four votes, which means it just doesnt take much for either side to take their ball and go home. Family support and medical services, park protections, passport issuance are programs that are affected by shutdown threats. Its quite unfortunate, so no more government shutdowns, you know what i mean, because it affect lot of households, you know, so thats something that i wish doesnt continue to happen, you know what i mean, because for active duty military, but unless a permanent budget is approved, a shutdown threat still looms. The shut down could affect more than million Service Members who would be required to work, but without getting a paycheck, and some 200,000 pentagon civilians will be expected to work without getting paid, considered essential to protect people and property. Although a divided government could be beneficial to keep the Opposing Side in check, it could also be the source of severe gridlock. Right now, the us congress is more the ladder. Colin campel, press tv, washington. And that doesnt for roll news, thanks for reading with us. Ill be back in just few minutes time to review the top stories for you. Its byebye for now. From the environment to business and economy to civil and human rights, to treaties and agreements, to war and conflicts, we bring you the overlooked aspects of world events and news from the farflunged corners of the globe. 10 minutes only on press tv, the us said it was going to reconstruct afghanistan and restore security to the country, but after two decades. 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