And a person is killed and several wounded in a shooting a luxury mall in the center of thailands capital bangkok. Hello everybody, very warm welcome to press tv, world news. And now leader irans Islamic Revolution as slammed governments pursuing normalization with israel, likeikening it to betting a losing horse. دولت هایی که قمار آدی سازی با رژیم صهیونیستی رو. برای خودشون سرمشق و شیروه کار قرار میدن این ها ضرر خواهند کرد. بااخت منتظر این هاست. دارن اشتباه می کنن. به قول اروپایی ها دارن رو اسب بازنده شرط بندی می کنند. I to say that ali khamenei says tel avib is replete with hatred and rage and has antagony towards both iran and all of its neighbors. He also held palestinian groups preparedness to resist occupation. Added israel is like a cancer that will certainly be eradicated by the Palestinian People and resistance forces. Leader also touch upon recent desecration of the quran saying such acts will not weaken the holy book. بحث در اون عناصر پشت صحنهه است. اونای که طرحان این جور جنایت ها هستند این جور کارهای عظیم نفرت انگیز هستند. اینا می کنن با این جور حرکات می توانند قران رو تصیف کنن اشتباه می کنن خودشون. Of called on islamic countries in west asia and north africa to unite and prevent us pillage, coersion and interference. He said if iran, iraq, syria, lebanon, saudi arabia, egypt, jordan and other persian gulf countries adopt a single policy in general issues, the bulling powers will be unable to interfere in their internal affairs. Iran was addressing participants of the islamic. Unity conference in tehran, high ranking officials including irans president and Parliament Speaker were also in attendance. Different units of irans army are holding largescale joint drone drills across the country from the persian gulf in the south to the western and northern regions. The navy, ground force, the air force, and air Defense Force and the Electronic Warfare units, all of the army are taking part in the maneuvers, around 200 drones will be used in the exercises. Unman surveillance and reconnects drones successfully carried out monitoring operations over land and maritime borders and the early hours of the drills, spoken for a joint drill says armys new achievements will be unveiled during these exercises اقتدار په participating units are categorized into two groups the first group shows the offensive power of the iranian army drones while the other one tests in the defensive power of the uavs. The armys new achievements will also come into operation during the drills, for the first time, air launch Electronic Warfare operation will be carried out, in addition, various drones will be flown from our vessels, they will hit different land and maritime targets, commander of the drills has also spoke about the maneuvers, rear admiral habibulari said joint drills show armys defense power and its achievements in domestic military production despite sanctions. Top iranian commander also touch upon the importance of maintaining and improving combat readiness of irans armed forces. Journalists and political. Commentator musas says iran needs a very sophisticated defense mechanism because it is surrounded by us and israeli bases. 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, with what i would describe as unconventional naval power as well as the conventional. So the most unconventional being speed boats literally which are now armed with with very 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. Muslims in several countries, including iran are commemorating the birth anniversary of the holy prophet muhammad, special ceremonies and events are being held throughout the country, including the capital tehran to mark this occasion. The day falls every year during rabial awwal, the third month of the islamic calendar. Every year muslims from around the world celebrate the birthday of the prophet, to confirm his teachings of monotheism with a great enthusiasm. People in many countries mark the oc based narratives of sunni muslims who put the prophets birthday on the 12th of rabil awwal in around the events held between the 12th and 17th of the lunar month known as islamic unity week. The fifth mustafa prize has come to an end in the iranian city of isfahan. Winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the science and Technology Award press tvs. Matty abassian takes us there. The historic Chahel Sutoon palace in iran central city of isfahan has hosted the Award Ceremony of the fifth edition of the mustapha prize. The ceremony was held with the presence of nearly a thousand attendees, including the winners of this year and previous years, the head of the Scientific Working Group of the fifth award, thinkers and president s of various universities and officials of scientific institutions, addressing the attendees head the mustapha price Scientific Working Group, development of science and technology is the result of collaborative work of scientists from all over the world, regardless of their nationality and cultural differences. Each of the scholars who will be awarded today have gathered here from every corner of the globe, they represent the best things that science can bestow upon humanity. The award. Ceremony was held in two different sections first in the field of nonresident scientists, professor ahmad hasan and professor omed faruk sat received their awards for their significant contributions in their respective fields of Software Engineering and nanomedicine. In his acceptance of speech farud expressed his gratitude to his family and made an important announcement about the prize he has received. I believe the mustafa prize is a symbol of scientific achievement. That my father honored most, i dedicate this award to my late father connel ali fad, also i denate the financial award to the Mustafa Foundation of science and technology to establish new prize for junior scientists. In the second part of the Award Ceremony murad from turkey, samiah hudi from lebanon and Ahmad Fauzi Ismail from cambodia received their mustafa medals for their outstanding work in advancing knowledge and improving the lives of people worldwide. The five laureates each received a sum of 5000 us, financed through endowments made to the prize. The mustafa prize is testimony to the contributions of the islamic world. In global scientific development, it inspires and encourages scientists and researchers in their pursuit of groundbreaking scientific innovations and discoveries. Now today marks the 8th anniversary of one of the most horrific attacks a medical facility in recent history. Back in 2015, us war planes heavily bombed a trauma hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in afghanistans Northern City of coundu. Killing 42 people, our correspondent reports out of kabul. This is what remained of the msf hospital in kundus after it was hit by a barage of us air strikes on october 3rd, 2015. For nearly an hour, the hospital was under fire as 211 shells rain down on the building, among the 40. Two victims were patients, caretakers and msf Staff Members who were providing Life Saving Services to the wounded and patients. The brittle attack on kundus hospital not only devastated our people at that time, but it still hants our nation, because it was attack on innocent people, attack that burned our medical professionals. Most of the targeted patients were the victims of the us war. Our nation will never forget this war crime. A hospital was mistakenly struck. The us initially denied targeting the hospital, but later admitted that it was a grave and tragic mistake. Independently and impartially. The msf denounced the attack as violation of International Humanitarian law on the war crime and demanded an independent investigation. However, no investigation or trial has ever been. اگر ما یک حکومت قوي داشته باشیم که پشتیوانی if an afghan legitimate government takes the case of the us attack to an international court, it will bring dignity and justice to the Afghan Nation and the families of the victims who are still waiting for such move. An impartial investigation and trial is the right of the victims of this horrific attack, unfortunately the previous government was controlled by the us, the current one is not recognized, so the per the kundus hospital attack have never been punished, attack on the msf hospital was not an isolate incident. During its 20year occupation of afghanistan, the us carried out more than 13,000 air strikes across the country. The us during campaign alone claimed the lifes of more than 4,000 people, many of them women and children. Afghan people have endered numerous atrocities committed by the us forces on their land, they say the us should be held accountable for their crimes in afghanistan. Press tv, kabul. In thailand, a person is killed and several wounded in a shooting a luxury mall in the capital bangkok. Attacker has been arrested. Hundreds of people fled the sam patagon mall in the heart of the tai capital as shots rang out tuesday afternoon. Prime minister surita. Uh thabisin says the situation is now under control, police have arrested and are questioning a 14yearold, a gun violence is common in thailand, an ex Police Officer killed 22 children in a nursery last year in a gun and knife attack, and in 2020 a soldier shot dead at least 29 people and wounded 57 others in rampage the spanned four locations in and around a northeastern thai city. Former us President Donald Trump arrives at new york courthouse for second day of a civil trial in a case that threatens to dismantle parts of his business empire. Trumps accused of inflating the value of its assets by billions of dollars to secure more favorable loans and insurance terms. Judge seeks at least 250 in fines as well as permanent ban against trump and his sons from running businesses in new york. Trump though has denied any wrongdoing this. The latest in a series of legal wows that the expresident has faced including overalledged sex abuse, paying hush money to adult film star and mishandling of classified documents. He is the front runner in the 2024 republican nomination for president. Joining us now from the us capital is colin camel, press tv correspondent, hello there dr. Hope youre safe and doing well. Now uh, colin, if you could this latest uh legal challenge that you a former president is facing, if you could tell our viewers all about it, it seems like one pops up every other month, whats this one all about . Thats right, and i think youre alluding to the 91 counts uh indictment and the uh, the four different in indictments leading up to 91 counts, and yes, so trump, the former president is embroiled in lot of legal battles. This latest one involving the state of new york is a civil suit, so lets keep in mind that this would not result in any jail time for the president , if hes convicted, however, he could stand to lose lot of his empire that he built his name on, one that hes become synonymous with. With as far as affluence and wealth and why a lot of people voted for him, considering what was marketed at the time was his business acumen. What the former president is accused of is fraud, falsifying business documents, issuing falsified documents as well as conspiracy and other things, and hes not the only one being sued, his sons are being suit, donald trump jr. And eric trump as well as several other members the Trump Organization. And the Trump Organization itself for falsifying documents so that they could get more favorable loans and insurance rates and what this looks like is if i lived in a uh lets say a 200 square foot house but then i say well really its a 500 square foot house that way i could get bigger bank loans because obviously a 500 square foot house would be worth more than a 200 square foot house or if you were to look at it as meters, if i was to live in a 300 square meter house, instead i say its a 600 square meter house, then i would get more uh better loans, because my 600 square meter house would be worth more. Well, what the new York Attorney general is saying is that trump has done this for number of years for number of his residences and businesses, over inflating the value of these businesses so he could get bigger loans, also inflating his own. Worth, he says hes worth billions, however when you look at his assets, he may not actually be worth as much as he says he is, and thats what the evidence is lodged against the former president , this of course is huge, why . Because this could change profoundly the way that the former president does business in the state of new york, where again he built his name and his empire, the state is looking for 250 Million Dollars in damages, this of course is something that trump and the Trump Organization does not want to pay, hundreds of millions of dollars, not only that, he would be disallowed from doing any further business in the state, so again this is extremely impactful to the former president , if it is ruled against him, and and colin, we know he has extreme resources, we know that he has a prolific uh ensemble of attorneys to stand in front of authorities, is he going to weather the storm like hes weather . The previous ones, its going to be tough, uh, weathering the storm is something that is going to be severely difficult for him, why . Because the attorneys that he has, he had to pick them based a series of criteria, are they familiar with material, are they someone who represents interests in the best way, are they willing to work with him, because it is said that he doesnt always pay his attorneys and so there were some attorneys who were not willing to work with them, not only that, just defending the. Former president himself, despite all the legal wows that hes already facing, some attorneys did not want their name associated with the former president , so is he getting the best Legal Council . Some would definitely debate that, of course the president has a long way to go before he puts all of these legal issues behind him, when it comes to this particular issue, it does not look good for the president , listen, there are receipts on this, there are records on this, theyre coming coming through all of the the uh the claims that he had about his properties, its written down, theres commensorate money that he was loaned or given or at least um he was able to work with or have access to and utilized because of falsified documents, all of this is written down, so this is not really the best situation, and you can tell from the countenance on the former president s face, he has a scowl on his face, he hasnt been uh very friendly. His mood has not been uh the normal from what people around him are saying uh he also took the time to speak to people after his first appearance in the new york court to really launch allegations against the new York Attorney general accusing her of reverse racism whatever that is uh that seems to be the claim of many white people when they are faced with the reality that uh having any kind of privilege over their color of skin. Will not be afforded to them, so there are lots of things that the former president is having issues with here, because the only way that he seems to have defense is if he talks about how he is a political target rather than really defending the merits of the case, and that shows you that he may not have very strong case. We call it in uh, in the academic world the fallacy of adhomanim. The fallacy of adhomanim is thinking that youve won an argument and that youre the victor of debate by attacking the person personally, insulting them, disparaging them, and we see this playing out in real time when it comes to the former president s case, hes not really defending. Whats going on in the case, hes rather insulting the new York State Attorney general, and that really does not look good for him, and hes just one endless fallacy after the next all the arguments he makes with respect to almost everything he tries to defend, were out of time colon, thanks for joining us, dr. Colin camble, there joining us from the us capital washington dc. Now the European Unions pledged more military aid for ukraine and called on us lawkers to reconsider their decision to drop Financial Support for the country. We discussed this with our guests earlier and our news. Program, here it is. Is the secretary general of the Cp 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. Ukraine, but based on the most recent stop gag bill, as they call it to aver shut down, the ukraine bill was not part of that in the us, that is, do you think that that is the beginning uh of uh the uss decision, or i should say the republicans decision, not to provide more aid to ukraine on the from the us side, but first of all we have to to say that. The uh the entire issue of ukraine has been a miscalculation of a Group Leading the Security Sector in the United States, namely mrs. Nowland, as we know, was been promoted over the time to the position where she is today, so it is something that the United States intended as a part of the Security Apparatus. 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 Apparatus of the United 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 propaganda on the media is questioning the decision of the united of the European Union to basically melt with. The nato priorities, 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 stepling, the eu foreign policy. Joseph burell in uh that particular press conference uh made a statement that id like to ask you what you think of it and that is how you portrayed russia as being an existential threat uh to i think he was referring to the eu uh 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 uh who are gunho 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 opped in the wall street journal, 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 the 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 of 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 oped was about, the wall street journal op ed, uh, was that that we should, the United States should continue to support the defense industry, the us spends something like, you know, 6 billion dollars a day on defense, it it dwarfs any other country in defense spending, and going escalate that . Thank you so much for that, paulo rofone, 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. Crisis devastating wars, terrorism. The israeli lobby, crackdown, diplomacy, muslim world challenges, make sure to join the show through facebook, twitter, only on press tv. Im not only here to participate in the millennial anniversary, but also to present and describe many different places to you. 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Irans leader ayatollah khamene warns against any attempts by regional countries to normalize relations with israel, likeikening it to benting a losing horse. He had israel resembles cancerous tumor that will ultimately be eradicated by the Palestinian People and resistance forces. Different units of irans army have kicked off largescale joint drone drills across the country. Drolls commanders has unmann surveillance and reconnaissance drones successfully carried out monitoring operations over irans borders in the early hours of the maneuvers