Warm welcome to our studios in the capital tehran. This is press tv news. Its good to have you with us. The iranian president has once again strongly condemned the recent desecration of the holy quran in some European Countries. Islam is a religion of freedom and equality. The holy quran is also a book of mercy, wisdom and. Divine words of insulting the holy quran as the precious miracle of the Prophet Muhammad is insult to of humanity, freedom, values and spirituality. The Islamic Republic of iran strongly condemns such hateful and spiteful acts that occur in some parts of the world with the aim of spreading islamophobia. These acts also hurt the sentiments of muslims across the globe. I seemed the comments in a congratulatory message to the leaders and the people. Muslim countries on the auspicious occasion of the Prophet Muhammads birth anniversary. He also called for the promotion of unity and solidarity among muslim nations. The holy muslim book has been desiquated in the netherlands, sweden and denmark on several occasions this year. The sacriligious acts have taken place with the go ahead given by those countrys authorities and with protection provided by the security forces. Muslim countries across the world have held huge protest to condemn the profane move. The iranian armys drowns can already counter any threat, but the force still wants to become more powerful in this sector. Thats according to rear admiral habibollah sayari, speaking as irans army, prepares to hold largescale joint drone drills across the country. More than 100 drills uh will be conducted as of tomorrow morning, thats what were planning to do. The drires will conducted both in daylight and at night and in the Electronic Warfare atmosphere, so we should see how long our drones endure when it comes to Electronic Warfare, the drills commander says iran is boosting its defense capabilities against any possible threat. Reer admiral saari stress that iran has made great progres in the Drone Industry in recent years, placing its among the strongest in the region. The iranian, army navy, ground and air forces will be taking part in the exercise starting on tuesday. The drills aim to assess various types of home grown unmanned aircraft, including reconnaissance and combat bounds. Tepban has always s military power posing poses no threat to anyone, and it serves as deterrant. Political commentator says iran needs a very sophisticated defense mechanism because it is surrounded by us and bases all around his borders. Iran has need for this military hardware in this defense, of very highly technological nature, because they are up against virtually every border from afghanistan through to azerbaijan, through to iraq and the gulf itself. Iran is surrounded by the anglozionist imperialist military bases and uh and missiles themselves, but of course. Missiles is just one aspect, the Standing Army amounts to at least million personnel in itself, so huge numbers, theyve also advanced in terms of naval power which theyve been flexing their muscles on over the last kind of year or so particularly uh with what i would describe as unconventional of naval power as well as the conventional sort, the most unconventional being speed boats literally now with with sophisticated missile capability, which is a threat even the seventh fleet of the americans which is based out there in the persian gulf in bahrain and and other ports, the bottom line is that iran has solution to virtually everything that the americans and their their Atlantic Partners have in terms of their belligerant efforts to dominate that part of the world. The nonalained movement has rejected the use of threat or force against its members under the pretext of combatting terrorism or achieving political goals. That was part of a Statement Read by irans envoy to the un, zahrah ershadi on behalf of nam a General Assembly committee. The movement said terrorism should not be equated with the legitimate struggle of nations under colonial domination or Foreign Occupation who seek selfdetermination and national liberation. The name statement also called for the condemnation of brutality against people who remain under Foreign Occupation as the gravest form of terrorism. The movement urged all states to fulfill their obligations in combatting terrorism under International Law by prosecuting and extraditing the perpetrators of terrorist acts. It als to denounce terrorism and all of his forms. The leadersbollah Resistance Movement deplores the normalization of ties between some arab countries and the Israeli Regime as a betray to palestinians. Any country heading towards normalization with israel when it signs a normalization agreement must be condemned and its actions must be denounced. This matter goes beyond political. Because its very dangerous as it represents stab in the back the Palestinian People as well as islamic and christian holy sites. The normalization with israel is also equal to abandoning palestine and playing into the enemys hands. He said that countries that seek to normalize ties with israel must be held accountable for their actions. This comes from reports that saudi arabia may reach normalization deal with israel. Bahrain along with the United Arab Emirates signed us broker normalization agreements with israel in september 2020. The more arab states iraco and sudan joined the accord later. The normalization sparked criticism from other muslim countries. They argued that the move would in embolden israel in its crimes against palestinians and would harm a Regional Peace and stability. Israel has launched fresh air attacks on syria hitting targets near the city of dar al Syrian Military sources said the regime war planes pounded some of the arab Countries Armed forces positions. They said the raise left two soldiers injured causing material damage. The regime frequently carries out such acts of aggression against syria. Damas says the attacks violates national sovereignty. It has repeatedly complained to the un urging the Security Council to take action against tel aviv. Palestinians have held a rally in gaza in support of occupied als and with the escalating israeli aggression. Protesters are about to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their sanctities. Press correspondent ashnet reports from gaza. People in the bloccated gaza strip have held a demonstration and support to most and occupied alcords in the face of growing israel aggression against the islamic colisite. Protesters shoutted slogans against the israeli. Regime and demanded an end to the israeli occupation. Tensions have been on the rise in recent days in alquds with Israeli Settlers backed by Regime Forces desecrating the cities alaqsa mosk. The Hamas Movement to organize the rally vowed to continue resistance until the liberation of all of palestine. Mask is not alone and we will protect it with our lives. The desigration of our holy site and digging tunnels under it will never give legitimacy to the. Zionist enemy. The Palestinian People are in a constant state of resistance, and their resistance will continue to increase until the liberation of and every inch of our land. People came out to express their support for resistance as the best way to defend alds against israeli attacks. They stress that al quds will always remain the capital of palestine, despite the us and israeli plots to change its status. To every muslim around the world and every palestinian. The designs are creating alaqsa and we believe that only armed resistance can liberate alquds and all of palestine. Occupied by Israeli Regime forces in 1967 alquds and thesamask have been at the core the palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. We are here to tell the whole world that palestinians are willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of liberating alquds. We will not remain silent amit the attacks on alaqsa. Al quds will always be a muslim city. Alquds and alaqsa mask have a special place in the hearts of millions of muslims around the world due to the religious. Significance. Palestinians and the beseest coast territory say they will use all forms of resistance against the Israel Occupation at to the liberation of al quds. Press tv gaza. The diplomatics rift between india and canada deepens further with new delhi calling on ottawa to withdraw dozens of its diplomats from the country. India has reportedly asked canada to repatriate 41 diplomats by october the 10th. The british daily has cited sources. Familiar with the indian demand that new delhi has even threatened to revoke the diplomatic immunity of those staffers to remain in the country after the deadline. Tensions between the two countries escalated after the canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau accused new delhi of being involved in the killing of sikh activist hardip singh nizar in june. Nizar was member of the Khalistan Movement that has been demanning an independent sikh state in india for decades. The rightwing Indian Government of Prime Minister modi. Has rejected any involvement in the killing. Us military support for ukraine is coming under increasing criticism at home and abroad. The mexican president has now strongly criticized the spending as irrational and damaging. Under Emmanuel Lopez obrador urged washington to instead devote more resources to help latin american countries. The leftist Lopez Obrador has vowed to keep mexico neutral in the conflict and proposed peace talks to end it. The us has sent more than 46 billions in military aid to ukraine since the russiaukraine war started in february 1822. However, last Week Congress passed an 11th hour government funding bill that did not include aid for ukraine. A news survey showed that majority of americans believe the us has done enough to support ukraine i would argue against allocating more funds for the country. The European Union meanwile has plaged more military aid for ukraine and called on us law makers to reconsider the. Decision to drop Financial Support for the country. In our news review program, we took a closer look at the western support for ukraine in the war with russia. Lets see what a guest had to say. Paolo rafone is the secretary general of the cpe foundation, joining us from brussels and we also have john stepling, author and commentator who joins us from inderoy norway. Welcome to you both. Let me first start with you. So interesting situation it seems like has evolved here where you have uh the eu pledging uh military aid to ukraine but based on the most recent stop gag bill as they call it to avert shut down the ukraine was not part of in the us that is uh do you think that that is the beginning uh of uh the uss decision or say the republicans decision not to provide more aid to ukraine on the from the us side. Well first of all we have to to say that the the entire issue of ukraine has been a miscalculation of a Group Leading the Security Sector in the United States, namely mrs. Noorland, as we know, was being promoted over the time to the position where she is today, so it is something that the United States intended as that part of the Security Apparatus of the United States have engaged in with the total miscalculation that wanted russia to be defeated and possibly even splitted into regions, and ukraine has been used to this scope, the European Union has been caught or captured by the security apparates of the United States states through nato and has been supporting ukraine with these uh flow words of existential freight and so on. The situation today is that a large number of people in the European Countries despite the continuing the propaganda on the media is questioning the decision of the united of the European Union to. Basically melt with the nato priorities uh in the United States, the the basis who has to vote, is questioning why to waste so much money and armament in a war that they do not understand, and the situation may be changing in the United States if the republican size will prevail in the elections. Okay, john stop. The eu Foreign Policy chief joseph in that particular press conference uh made a statement that id like to ask you what you think of and that is how you portrayed russia as being an existential threat. To, i think he was referring to the eu, why does he think that russia is an existential threat . I mean, then what should russia think when you have, i dont know how many countries are members of nato, who are and ready to go against russia . Well, everything, he was simply, he was simply lying through his teeth about everything, i dont, i dont know that he believed any of it, but but there was an op. In the wall street journal uh a couple of days ago and and a speech by zelinsky where they openly said we should be we should be cheering on the Defense Industry and zelinski said lets cut out middle men and turn ukraine into what he was essentially saying was a massive Industrial Park for the Defense Industry come and build your factories here we will be the arsenal of the western world and uh this this was surprisingly candid, actually, they thats thats the goal, because the war is over, the ukrainian soldiers are are surrendering in mass as we speak, in fact, this thing is over, and uh, the us and the Defense Industry, it may seem like a miscalculation, because they underestimated russia sure, i guess they did, but they certainly have made a massive profit on this, and they intend to continue making a profit. Um, and thats what zelinskys speech was about, and thats what the wall street offed was about, the wall street journal of ed, uh, was that that we should, the United States should continue to support the Defense Industry, the us spends Something Like you, 6 billion dollars a day on defense, it it dwarfs any other country in defense spending, and theyre going to. Escalate that, thank you so much for that, paulo rofonet, secretary general of the cipi foundation, john stepling, thank you, author and commentator, thank you tiba, with that we come to an end for this edition of the news review, thanks for tuning in, the former us President Donald Trump has once again appeared in court, this time over case of civil fraud, the lawsut is by the new York Attorney general leticia james, shes accused trump and his Family Business of inflating the value of their assets by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance terms. If found guilty, trump could face fine of up to 250 million, a ban on running businesses in new york, and fiveyear restriction on commercial real estate activities. Trump, however has denounced the case as a sham, and part of a political witch hunt. And now i have to go before a rogue judge as a continuation of russia, russia, russia, as a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time, and i dont think the people of this country are going to stand for it. The trial is expected to last several weeks and could have major impact on trumps business empire, marks the latest in a series of legal voes that the expresident and the front runner for the 2024 president republican president. President ial nomination is encountering. Trump already faces charges of sexual abuses, alleged mishandling of classified files and attempts to overthrow the 2020 president ial election results. The former president keeps denying any wrongdoing. Afghanistan has held a ceremony to mark the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad and the islamic unity week. The event stressed the need for unity and solidarity among the followers of the prophet of islam. Chris rahmat has more from kabul. The grand khatam mosk in cable was the venue for the ceremony celebrating the Prophet Muhammads birthday and the islamic unity week. The ceremony drew people from all works of life, including religious scholars, taliban officials and students. The speakers emphasized the need for following the path of Prophet Muhammad. In all aspects of life and strengthening the islamic bonds. God has introduced the prophet of islam as the best role model for humanity. Prophet muhammad is the role model because he is the mercy of god for us, following his path, will bless us lock and good in the life and the hereafter. The attendies of the ceremony also expressed their views on the occasion. Many of them said they were. Happy to see muslims from different sects coming together and celebrating their common faith. They also said they hope for peace and stability in their wartorn country. Implement their goals and dominate muslim territories, but fortunately, today all our muslim brothers are aware and wont let anyone divide us or create hatred among us, we should Work Together for the prosperity and security of our islamic world, the islamic unity week is an it is observed by both sunni and shia muslims around the world. This is also an opportunity for muslims to celebrate their common values. Following decades of invasion and war in their country, Afghan Muslims have gathered today to show their unity and brotherhood. They also voice support for other muslims across the world in the face of Global Arrogance and operation. The Anglican Church in south africa says the decision to declare israel and apart identity bears historical significance to its own struggle back home against such discriminatory laws. South africa has intensified efforts to isolate israel with the governments already downscaling diplomatic ties. Hasan saria reports. Motivated by a consistent campaign the late antiapartite leader and former. Archbishop desmond 2, the Anglican Church has now resolved to officially classify israel and a apartate regime. It alinds with decision by the south African Council of churches, which has long been critical of the zionist regime and its oppressive doctrine. The archbishop of the Anglican Church, reverend tabu mahoba, who is currently at the vatican said an audio message that remaining silent on the continued oppression of the Palestinian People cannot be tolerated. Our. Hearts aike for our Christian Brothers and sisters in palestine, whose numbers include anglicans, but are rapidly declining. People of all faiths in south africa have both a deep understanding of what it is to live under oppression as well as experience of how to confront and overcome unjust rule. In its resolution, the church. To lengths to underscore that solidarity visits must be carried out to palestine and particular efforts must be made to engage with the church in alkuds and ordinary Palestinian Christians to learn the true extent of their suffering under israeli occupation. It acknowledges that until now when christians do visit our kuds, they often overlook the palestinian reality, and in some instances are even taken on all expenses paid propaganda trips by the zinist regime. The fact that its a birthplace. Christ, i think the question of language is very important and the statement makes point of when pilgrimages are conducted from us the south africans to jerusalem, then um the fact of the name of palestine or palestine is never mentioned, its always israel, and yet in jesus day it would have been palestine. While the Anglican Church has taken steps to talk about palestine, it hopes that. Resolution identifying israel as apartite regime will overcome the apathy which it says still prevails within the christian community. The Anglican Churchs decision comes ahead of an International Conference on apartate israel in south africa later this year. The Dutch Reform Church is also expected to take a similar decision later this month, further emphasizing the plight of the Palestinian People. Assenseria press tv, cape town. And that does it for this additional world news to stay with us to recap of the headlines coming up at the top of the hour. Its byebye for now. Im not only here to participate in the millennial anniversary. But also to present and describe many different places to you. Its a very nice place here. This city is really interesting. Well, i am saheil assad and we are here to celebrate the millennial birthday of imam riza alaihi salam. We are from different parts of the world, around 60 countries. There are 20 Million People who visit the tomb of imam raza. The holy shrine during the year. The holy shrine of considered one of the largest places in the islamic world. Together, we have shown that when europe is bold and united, it gets things done, a lappel de lhistoire, its time to come down from the ivory tower. 95 Million People in the eu are threatened by poverty, there is a broken Energy Market while the energy and Arms Industries are making record profit. Last year it seem that italy was better performing as compared to other industrial economies in in europe, this year and this quarter it seems the the opposite. The iranian president has strongly condemned the recent desecration of the holy quran in some European Countries. Ab said the sacrilegious act aims to spread islamophobia. He added that the move is insult to humanity, freedom and spiritual values. Lebanance chief says any normalization of ties with israel would be tend to out to abandoning palestine. And playing into their enemies hands. Called on muslims to feel responsible and help the oppressed palestinian nation and not to keep silent and israeli violations