Good evening and welcome this is r. T. International. Because of fire in the gulf of oman in suspected attacks the incident occurred amid high tensions in the middle east and triggered a surgeon or prices becomes the month of to similar events in the region back then the u. S. Accused iran of sabotaging Saudi Oil Tankers something the Islamic Republic has. Discussed the issue with our correspondent donald quarter. We still have a lot of unconfirmed information but much of it has been cleared up since the explosions the main thing we know is that all of the crew members are safe and accounted for Iranian State t. V. Reports 44 crew members as well as 2 oil tankers were involved in this incident that happened by the strait of hormuz 11 russians were on board and the tankers were sailing under the flags of panama and the Marshall Islands now there were witnesses who said that one vessel called front tear was in flames quote on fire and adrift and the Iranian State media also posted pictures of this on their twitter account now the company that owns both of the oil tankers frontline told Russian Media that there doesnt appear to be an oil spill or any pollution as a result of the flames going back to the beginning of the incident it became known after the u. S. Navy reported 2 distress calls thursday morning while they claimed that they helped out with the rescue effort Iranian State media is saying that the an iranian ship was the 1st to be on the scene and they rescued all 44 of the crew members now the u. S. Fleet commander later said that it was possible that there was an attack that caused this explosion and some reports are saying that one or 2 of the ships was hit by a torpedo others are suggesting that there were naval mines involved but none of these are confirmed yet and frontline is also said that its too early to say whether or not this was an attack now this is strikingly familiar to an incident that occurred in may tell us a bit more about that yeah definitely well back in may like you said there was an attack on for oil tankers near the United Arab Emirates now the government there originally denied the attack happened altogether but later they said that it was the result of an unnamed state actor sabotaging the oil tankers with naval mines now although the u. S. Was much more straightforward in accusing iran of this net National Security adviser john bolton said that he was almost certain that iran was responsible and response to ron called this accusation read. Phyllis and called bolton a warmonger and these harsh words there are theyre not random there are myths to heighten tensions that continue to persist in the persian gulf today listen up forget that the United States put their naval fleet there in the persian gulf and are at the same time saying that theyre not trying to raise tensions or start a war on top of that washington has already said that they want to exert maximum economic pressure on iran after the failure of the nuclear deal so this is definitely a delicate situation that could easily become more volatile. And im sure the line about how much of a solvent his professor of Political Science at the university of tehran professor what do you think 1st of all think of this incident at this stage can we ascertain whether this was an attack as some reports suggest or perhaps something else. Well 1st of all we can order ignore the timing of these attacks they happened during the state visit of japanese Prime Ministers to iran after 4 decades and actually the visit by the japanese Prime Minister was aimed at the escalating tensions between iran and the United States and on the very day that the japanese Prime Minister is meeting with the supremes leader of iran ayatollah harmony these 2 ships get attacked and in fact reports are saying that at least the cargo of one of the ships was owned by japan so i think 3rd parties i dont think it was necessarily done by the United States but for now i think we should look at countries that have a motivation to escalate the situation in the region in those 2 countries are unfortunately saudi arabia and israel despite global calls for an easing of tensions in the fingerpointing weve already seen norway warning some of its ships to avoid going through iranian territorial waters to think its a legitimate precaution of the stage. Well 1st of all these attacks did not happen in iranian waters they were in International Waters nevertheless these accusations and we heard the same things in may of perhaps iran being behind the attacks is just ridiculous because this is actually hurting iran more than other parties for example the uranium currency the re are actually lost 5 percent of its value today just because of this talk of escalated tensions as well as perhaps the possibility of war so i think right now iran at least wants to deescalate the situation with the United States and they have numerous these said iranian leaders in the past that they dont want a war with the United States but like a mentioned some countries in the region unfortunately they do want an escalation. If we look at you know the issue of blame imperiling the u. S. Department of defense as this is according to reports that claimed that it has proof that iran is responsible for the attack at the same time youve got the german media claiming that the situation is similar to a scenario seen at the start of the vietnam war is it possible such provocation could happen. Well we have to remember that even during the attacks in may the americans accused iran of being behind the attacks but so far they have provided no proof whatsoever in these attacks we just had we just actually happened today how can they come out and so fast without any any kind of investigation to come in and choose iraq and i think this goes back to the whole scenario of trying to ferment tensions between iran and the United States perhaps by some hogs in the in the United States as well as some regional actors to bring about a war and if if a war does happen its going to be bad not just for iran but the entire region even as well as the International Community so i think we should all try to avoid such a scenario ok many thanks my guest the advice of a professor of Political Science at the university of tehran. Because home secretaries handed a u. S. Extradition request for Julian Assange to the courts which will now consider the whistleblowers fate of the hearing into the matter should go for friday so the edward stashed the reports from the. Well its a dark day for Julian Assange and his supporters as the u. K. s home secretary sajid javid has just signed an order paving the way for dear innocents to be extradited to the United States now he himself said that he was pleased that youre in a sonorous behind bars and that justice will prevail in this procedure were very pleased that the police were finally able to apprehend him and now hes right behind bars because he broke you cade law i want to see justice done all the time so weve got a legitimate execution request so ive signed it but the final decision is now with the courts well it must be noted that the final decision is for the courts and the courts alone of course the United States does want your innocence for 17 indictments under the espionage act for publishing and delivering classified communications and documents all related to the iraq war and the war in afghanistan but also conspiring and even indeed hacking Government Computers and publishing these secret documents now the platform of which was used to do this is wiki leaks and the editor in chief in days says that youre innocent will not receive a fair trial i do believe that we are going to win this with legal argument there is no chance the julian will get a fair trial here in the u. K. Or in the u. S. Of course unless theres a change of reporting that people actually start speaking out were not talking about a prosecution were talking about a persecution welcome to the scientist 1 serving a 50 week sentence in the u. K. As belmarsh prison thats a high security prison here in the u. K. And that was for skipping bareback and 2012 now this is a video filmed inside the belmarsh prison by an inmate and it was a tame by arties video agency ruptly and as you can see he looks somewhat im a c 8 and rather skeletal there in the belmarsh prison now last month genocide 1 was actually moved to the medical ward there and his father earlier this week said that youre innocent is recovering from a dramatic weight loss during his time. I mean the belmarsh prison and indeed the Ecuadorian Embassy of course tears arent it was thrown back into the public eye back in april where he was forcibly removed by British Police from the londons Ecuadorian Embassy where he was actually seeking political asylum and he was holed up there for almost 2 and a half 1000 days which is the sum of almost 7 years in confinement there well it isnt just the United States that want your innocence were also hearing that swedish prosecutors want you in a science for Sexual Assault allegations made against him something that your innocence he himself them and need a nice you also believes its a pretext to then extradite him to the United States. If you noticed it says boosting its military presence in poland despond of a new deal with donald trump warsaw hosts an extra 1000. 00 american troops by u. S. Fighter jets to purchase american liquefied natural gas moscow says it regrets the u. S. Military buildup in poland trump produces a polish counterpart in washington u. S. Polish alliance its a very special alliance with very special people poland will soon provide. Basing an infrastructure to support military presence of about 1000. 00 american troops polish government will pay for this so america is bolstering its military presence in poland they are adding to the 4500. 00 troops that are already in the country on a rotating basis now it sounds dramatic but its actually somewhat short of the request from poland for a Permanent Us Military base which they intended to name for trump in the end the usa agreed to shift noncombat troops to poland who had already been stationed elsewhere in europe so who are the poles trying to defend themselves from because. Russia is again showing its unkind unfriendly imperial face russia is always looking out to take us territory yes those menacing russians on whole ones border just waiting for the right moment to invade but it seems that donald trump doesnt quite share that view the russia read the whole nation and the euro. I hope. Were with everybody and i hope i think that russia will treat poland with respect now while the russian threat may be imaginary the money that poland is showing the United States is very real big buyers of our equipment to our planes and our community sions in every form in every respect at this point weve got trouble praising the warsaw for meeting its nato spending requirements 2 percent of their g. D. P. Trump is encouraging poland to buy more than 30 f. 35 fighter jets even had one of them fly over the white house on the Sunny Afternoon due to a gave an encouraging wave and theres more money from poland coming americas way trump hailed the deal in which the country would purchase 2000000000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas from the United States furthermore at this point trump is praising poland for its baltic pipe project to support polands construction of the baltic pipeline. Which will help European Countries diversify their Energy Sources its desperately needed and thats the way to go so the big bad russians have got poland into a situation where it has no choice except to increase its military spending purchase a bunch of fancy new f. 35 fighter jets and import liquefied natural gas all the way from the other side of the planet yes trump the salesman is happy to make a deal it seems that sometimes having a bogeyman can be very convenient kaleb mup an artsy New York School commentator and journalist john white says that the move by the polish leader will weigh heavily on his countrys taxpayers fortunate that the polish government is confusing their revolutionary russia newton with the Russian Federation of 280 nothing changed to wind its understanding of russia for what has changed because this is redolent early changes change the norm when it comes to pull into being very provocative and try to engage the u. S. Is provocative actions against russia a very sad day for poor fish polish people taxpayers money sort of the wish to eat or trade to opium for these u. S. Troops or situational deployment and also the poles want even more they want a military base up there on the u. S. Military base and a country if they go to that step that who knows what the consequences will be because its only the sheen of russia up to now not responding to these are people that he should have a load situation to reach people who will not remains accuse us. Human rights watch says the British Government report whitewashes sandy arabias role in yemens humanitarian crisis and the British ForeignOffice Report states the conflict in yemen is that a devastating impact on peoples lives but it only mentions saudi arabia one of the sides in the war in connection with the alleged use of secret prisons. And Mr International alleged the use of secret prisons in areas under the saudi Led Coalitions control there was no reliable process for inquiry into detainees held at these facilities Human Rights Watch and for that we answer actions in yemen could amount to war crimes and accuses the u. K. Of turning a blind eye the reports most striking weakness is on the yemen while acknowledging the many civilians killed in the conflict it ignores the saudi Led Coalitions responsibility Indiscriminate SaudiLed Coalition air strikes in yemen have hit hospitals funerals weddings markets civilian homes and even a school bus killing and wounding thousands many of these attacks may be work crimes was this 2015 britain has sold 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons to riyadh making it one of the biggest exporters of arms to the kingdom the issue of weapons exports to the saudis has sparked heated exchanges in the u. K. Parliament weve requested comment from the British Foreign office but have yet to receive a response the sounds Like Coalition began its Bombing Campaign against the rebels in yemen which we are sees as terrorists back in 2015 saudi arabia insisting all it can to reduce civilian casualties un describe the situation as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis on earth warning you may find some of the images coming up disturbing. The bombings are killing the cholera epidemic the number of people who are in hunger because of a block a port of data etc the Foreign Office is trying to obfuscate or hide from the british people the fact that they are supporting the illegal action saudi arabia and its. In its war on the people of yemen the United Kingdom just like the United States has strategic interest in the region they want to protect these and elected dictatorial monarchical governments in order to secure Natural Gas Resources and the people of yemen fighting for their liberation. To their Foreign Policy go. An alliance of new here a skeptic parties in the European Parliament has come together to form a blog called identity and democracy the 5th Largest Group in the parliament for the around 10 percent of saints have also now announced that they intend to oppose the extension of anti russia sanctions are to smith an option as mine. We have been hearing about the nationalist alliance in the European Parliament for quite some time already and on thursday in brussels the leader of Frances National rally ben announced that officially saying it is a drastic change to the political chess board of the European Union identity and democracy or shortly aidid thats the blocks name will unite the right wing parties from 9 European Countries common direction common goal to take power from brussels and give it to the country members capitals for that very reason they are often referred to in the media as you are skeptics shortly after the new born Party Presentation its core chairman who is also known here in germany as the federal spokesperson for the alternative for germany a right wing Party Presented one of the features of the parties. That is definitely too different from the European Union sanctions against russia make no sense lets take a listen we oppose the extension of sanctions they did not fit the actions of russia we can extend them for another 10 years it will not change anything it came less than a week after the russian president Vladimir Putin said that russia is dreaded to move towards the European Union but the you should take the 1st step if the use policy towards russia changes will not only welcome it will take reciprocal steps this also applies to the country sanctions we were 1st to apply after the certain restrictions on the us the new alliance will take 73 seats of this 751 a seat European Parliament 10 percent compared to 5 percent in the last previous significant change makes it to feast Largest Alliance in the palm and which makes the chances a very high that the party will be successful in pushing forward its policy and we indeed are going to see that taint is 10 talked about there are many lawyers of. All the major issues. In the. We have about 25 to 30 percent of your skeptic parties and only the core is 10 percent or fraction and we had a lot of allies with whom we cooperate so yes youre stronger to see people see you bring all over all over europe. Bring them to become more you are aware elite of brussels that has lost context to the growing the reality of the member states. People want to control they want to serve govern their countries and those same actions are not very popular among the people in europe they want to extend that they want partnership with russia instead of a new cool war and as long as the issue on the table in brussels and all of the federal states germany that i dont this nation states and europe the u. S. Terror politicians come and put pressure on. Us National Security advisor john bolton says reports of disagreements between donald trump and top aides are part of a decision from ation Campaign Carried out by the likes of russia china and iran he also branded us journalists who write such reports stenographers of those regimes. North korea iran. Venezuela russia and china pride too so descend from asian about the administration and to say that the president his advisors are divided and things like that the stenographers of these regimes in the American Press immediately pick it up come on mr bolton in case youve been living under a rock the past few years u. S. President donald trump doesnt get along too well with the rest of capitol hill close to 30 of his team members have either resigned or were fired since he got into office his term has been haunted by cascade of information leaks by insiders saboteurs and trump hasnt always. Being on the same page with the rest of the administration. You think north Korea Remains a Nuclear Threat yes but the president said he doesnt its not what he said i mean i know i know personally we did it and there is a longer Nuclear Threat from north korea. I had a very good talk with president putin is. That looking at all to get involved in venezuela he was apparently ready to leave after the airport madeira what the russians talked him out of that is that right thats right now it could be because the trump isnt a tory asli divisive figure by nature could be because hes flip flops so much that hes policy u. Turns were created into actual flipflops well you know hes sometimes difficult to keep up with and you know after all he doesnt have to be a bad thing a clash of ideas challenging each other on policies is synonymous with democracy isnt it i really read in you 3 times due to how unbelievable it is that the russians in other bad guys spread this information about a divided opinions of u. S. President and his closest aides seriously when the president and his inner circle have different opinions it is a sign of the democratic process in the country doesnt washington defend this value with such zeal so yeah it could be a good thing except it probably stops being one when things move from the realm of professional to personal to go to work for a man who. Is pretty on discipline and doesnt doesnt like to read doesnt read briefly reports doesnt doesnt like to get into the details of a lot of things to listen didnt have the mental capacity needed he was dumb as a rock and i couldnt get rid of him fast enough he was lazy is hell we already know a lot about the discord in the tribal ministration from former tribe ministration officials i mean lets face it what did north korea did. To sow discord in the u. S. What could be his wayward view its doesnt make any sense the white house does not want to appear to be fragile theyre now facing a reelection very soon in 2020 and bolton is trying to help trump cover his behind by claiming others are responsible for discord and not those within the white house of course the message being that you know john bolton is looking for a pretext to go to war somewhere and hes a very devious man he likes to write thanks thing without taking to me for advice and how for now. To the. Moon. 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What a lot of stuff even if you find it a needle in a target is such. Would you. Give your local which is based on. Your own work or one would you would. Theres just. A little. More. Careful. Quantitative easing before q. E. 4 is now well under way cant taper a ponzi scheme no economics matters only money printing and stock manipulation. This is a boom bust broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance an impact upon us all. Another day another twist in the rocky trade relationship across the pacific from the u. S. Cracking down on china to the port problem facing the peoples republic john quelch the dean of the Business School at the university of miami is standing by to break down what lies on the horizon for me on the hostile trade rhetoric last Financial Risks are not unique to china and the u. S. May start to feel some heat despite some positive news for the stock market professor wood Richard Wolfe is on hand to help us sort through stocks and what we can expect moving forward as u. S. Has opened up multiple fronts on its trade war got a jam packed show today so lets go ahead and dive right in. The ongoing trade war with china leads our global report again today as wall weighs Consumer Division c. E. O. Richard you confirmed an indefinite delay in the companys much anticipated new line of laptops while we was set to reveal a new line of windows laptop. See asia in shanghai this week although they didnt plan on a while announcing a release date trade sanctions imposed by the u. S. Government have hampered wall weighs ability to procure products from American Companies including Microsoft Software and processors made by intel you also told c. N. N. We see on one stay that weiwei may never be able to release their new laptops if the Company Remains on the u. S. Commerce departments blacklist despite the setbacks in the Consumer Electronics field while his chief strategy architect tongue one sean told the Financial Times while was working with volkswagens audi and a joint venture between chinas g a c and japans toyota to provide their a high tech for self driving vehicles the wall way executive added that he expects the vehicles with autonomous driving components in 2021 or 2022 and that they would be available in china and europe. From tech to food in china the countrys consumer inflation grew to its highest level in 15 months and may the Consumer Price inflation rate jumped to 2. 7 percent in may thats the highest level since february of last year the number grew 2. 5 percent in april the spike is mostly due to the ongoing african swine swine fever outbreak in china that is pushing up the prices of pork and weather issues that have caused a shortage of supply of fresh fruits that plus the ongoing trade dispute between the u. S. And china has created uncertainty in chinas economy fresh fruit prices rose in may by a record 26. 7 percent year over year and cork rose by 18. 2 percent over the same period of time meanwhile the countrys producer Price Inflation the metric for prices that factories charge their wholesalers increased by point 6 percent in may. Going. To survey the slew of china news today as john quality of the Business School versus miami welcome back to. Thank you 1st of all what is