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This is r. T. International. Term says that he called off a strike on iran with just 10 minutes to go it comes amid escalating tensions between washington and tehran lets get an update from our correspondent in new york last caleb moore what more do we know about trumps remarks. Well according to what trump has posted on social media it seems that there were 3 spots in iran 3 locations that were selected for u. S. Military strikes however 10 minutes before the strikes were to take place donald trump learned that there would be a casualty of roughly 150. 00 people as a result of these strikes and he felt that was not proportionate and it was not proportionate to a single unmanned drone that was being hit now of course donald trump was referring to the u. S. Drone that was written recently shot down by iranians over the strait of hormuz now iran says that this drone violated their territory in the southern part of their country however u. S. Officials are saying that this drone was shot down in International Waters and that it did not violate their territory. Its important to note that before donald trump announced what action was intended or what was going to take place he did speak to the press and say that there was going to be some kind of response and he he referred to iran shooting down this drone as a big mistake this is what donald trump said prior to this potential strike that was called off i made a big mistake and they made a very bad mistake. Ok this is going to i mean you find out. You know maybe youll find out youll find. Your obvious lee obviously you know were not going to be talking too much about it youre going to find out theyve made a very big mistake. Now tensions between the United States and iran have been rising over the past few months in addition to the United States states withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal a 1000 new u. S. Troops were added to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from iran furthermore the United States has blamed iran for attacks on oil tankers that took place on june 13th now iran says they are not responsible for those attacks and have evidence to prove it now at this point weve got many observers looking and saying that the way u. S. Officials have spoken and conducted themselves regarding iran especially since the trumpet ministration has taken office has been rather inconsistent the Trump Administration seems to be sending mixed signals i lets review some of what Trump Administration officials have said in regards to the islamic republic. The neighbors ability for terror everywhere we go in the middle east its a really. Major destabilizing and influence in the middle east spread death and destruction and the leaders of iran are record piers the Worlds Largest financing of International Terrorism behind every problem is a ring and weve been trying to do is to get iran to behave like a normal they should. Now iran says it has wreckage of the unmanned drone that was shot down that was collected from its own territorial waters and that it has proof that this drone violated irans territorial sanctity however the United States maintains this drone was hit in International Waters and this was essentially some kind of attack against the United States now the u. N. Security council intends to meet and it at the u. N. Security council both iran and the United States would like to raise this issue of the attack on the unmanned drone so all eyes are on the Security Council and tonio gutierrez the u. N. Secretary general has called for all to exercise restraint and many around the world are closely watching this situation wondering what will come next all eyes are on the u. N. Security council as a meeting is expected to take place soon regarding this incident and many things of course when the new york when is right up to date that scalable. Political science professor at the university of tehran dont strum intended to attack. I think the fact that the uranium is were able to shoot down one of the most advanced aircraft of the u. S. Air force has been very humiliating for the image of the u. S. Military as well as for donald trump himself who likes to project an image of a strong arm leader and i think donald trump is trying to rebuild that image essentially by saying that you know we get hit the uranium very hard but we decided not to do so because of socalled humanitarian reasons in reality i think the trumpet ministration understands that any such strike would be actually responded by the rain as well in this would lead essentially into war. The fact that this strongly whether it was shot down over International Waters or iranian waters regardless of that we have to remember that this was a spy or a surveillance drone and im pretty sure it wasnt taking pictures of the fish in the persian gulf it was taking pictures of your union troops in the navy so what the americans are doing is essentially they are provoking you and i think this is very dangerous. The speaker of the Georgian Parliament has resigned after a mass protest in the capital the Russian Foreign ministry accuses georgias radical opposition of using the visit of a russian delegation to provoke protests 240 people have been injured including 80 Police Officers which is interior ministry labeled the unrest they massive coup and reported over 300 people detained you may find the following pictures disturbing. I. Was was was was was. Was the. Its not going to the situation got very heated there was respirator and then the crowd geared up for another storm stone sticks and bottles were thrown from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed tear gas. As dawn broke on friday police appeared to be full control of the city center the opposition has announced a new round of protests on friday night thursday saw an attempt to storm the Parliament Building an estimated 5000 demonstrators rallied against the participation of a russian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of russia nor makers sat in the georgian speak his chair further angering the protesters who were north origins of called on the demonstrators to refrain from breaking the world was the georgian president is blaming russia for the situation saying the protests only benefit the kremlin hes now cut short a visit to valorise to return home moscow meanwhile condemning the actions of georgian officials during the protests in a statement russias Foreign Ministry accused them of using the protests to so anti russian sentiment protests erupted after a russian m. P. A dress state Parliamentary Assembly of lawmakers from the docks christian countries the protests made ongoing tensions between russia and georgia a decade after the conflict in south the setia. Protesters are now demanding that the interior minister resigned the minister said is he ready to do so if needed but called on the protests to stop the former acting president of georgia Nino Burjanadze soldiers the government to tbilisi has been form and russian sentiment. The rushing to our generations are really very difficult and sensitive for you i guess aside and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m. P. In that year of 2 i. G. N. Speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is the just touching independence and sovereignty of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government had absolutely unbelievable how im competent is the government and its absolutely sure for for me the government did nothing for the improvement of russian georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction of political parties. Themselves as a pro western and that right now 2 years they see. How to say see airplane upset people in their Political Goals and to just strengthen these 2 russian really exist in a serious part of the georgian population back to only one could be blamed for the lease and shouldnt be absent and be irresponsible you see this government and stupidity of this government. European Commission Leaders fail to agree on who will take up the reins of top positions some of its now been announced in another attempt to break the Deadlock Commission President Council president and 4 of the top jobs were being chosen by now peter all of a husband. Of this deadlock in the European Union over who will fill a number of the e. U. Institutions top jobs including the european Commission President and president of the European Council those jobs currently have. By junk lord young and donald to escape at the moment and theyve been heading up talks to try and pick their replacements essentially however those talks have broken down one of the reasons that were hearing that theres no solution so far well it comes from leo varadkar the irish Prime Minister he said that it was easier picking a pope than using the system thats used in the e. U. To pick a Commission President as well as other Top Institution posts its called the spits and candidate method method or system basically preferred candidate in germany is what it is it means that if you look at all of the different parliamentary groups in the European Parliament whoever gets the most seats well there spits in candidate their preferred candidate gets looked at 1st by the e. U. Heads of government if they like that candidate well they put them forward to majority votes for them they put them forward to the European Parliament parliament then votes on them and if they vote them through they become the next european Commission President if they dont the whole system starts right over again with whoever came in 2nd as we understand it well so far the heads of government werent that impressed with munford verba who is the candidate from the p. P. P. Who got the most seats in the most recent european elections and also they werent that keen on france timmermans from the socialists the European Socialist Group who got the 2nd highest amount of seats in the parliament so we really are all up in the air at the moment we are looking at a split between key power brokers inside the e. U. Over this money were macron in france hes not a fan at all of this bits and condit method and on the other side of that corridor angler merkel the german chancellor who wants to essentially see her man put into play. The next european Commission President now. When he while hes been speaking out against the system thats in play. At the moment hes also said the hot angler merkel throwing her hat into the ring he would have been inclined to vote for her i have nothing against a german candidacy i said it and wasnt a joke had the chancellor been a candidate i would have supported her because i think she has the qualities the skills to be a very good president of the commission it is not what she wants i respect that very deeply well im glad merkel has dismissed 80 chance of her running to be the european Commission President she was speaking on friday she also tried to calm down rumors that baena a serious rift between burley and paris over who should get the European Commission top job. And i still say no and i want to add that im a little bit sad that my words which ive said so often and apparently not respected at all were respect each other i do not want to make a decision against france and i believe that france doesnt want to make a decision against germany of the very latest it does seem that money isnt getting the amount of votes it needs from heads of government to be put forward as the next president of the European Commission that hasnt stopped the german chancellor though for saying that she still bucks her mom in repeat what i said and to avoid any unnecessary questions we stand by our lead candidate the p. P. Candidate Manfred Weber other stand by their lead candidate obviously those are quite tired looking young who address the press after this meeting broke down hes searching for his own replacement however he did allow a joke his own expense does it cause i know to the satisfaction museum and yes pleasure that it seems is not easy to replace me. So with no decision from the heads of government of the states over who they want to see appointed as the next european Commission President theyre all going to have to come back again next week on the 30th of june for another round of talks in the go see asians to try and hammer out a solution. Shocking allegations of mistreatment by a facebook contractor come to light and bring you details on that after this break. Ok were going to get rid of the break because theres lots more news to squeeze in so lets get on with just that just a day after u. K. Courts ruled arms sales to saudi arabia unlawful britains biggest weapons manufacturer be a insists that it wont stop supplying riyadh we continue to support the u. K. Government in providing Equipment Support and training and the government to government agreements between the United Kingdom and saudi arabia will assist the results of the u. K. Governments reconsideration of its Decision Making on the basis of the court once its been made. Wednesday the campaign against arms trade won a Landmark Legal challenge against the u. K. Government they argued the british weapons contribution to the human toll in yemen which is faced the Saudi Military Campaign since 2015 court of appeals judges also slammed u. K. Ministers for ignoring the risk to civilians when signing arms deals with the riyadh the ruling now puts pressure on downing street to suspend those agreements the un says the yemeni conflict is the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world. And im joined on the line now by andrew smith is the spokesperson of the campaign against arms trade good evening to you andrey what do you make of b as stance will it be able to ignore the Court Decision. Well the Court Decision has blocked busy future arms sales but it hasnt stopped the previous arms sales in its most licensees as the are working under parcel and back fence the correct but be wouldnt stop its arms sales by choice anyway because he has had a long and shameful and disgraceful history of arming and supporting the sadia regime for decades despite the repression inflicted on those the people and slay the appalling atrocities which he has committed against the people yemen because its not just these the civic arms sales and we need to be finding a boaters the whole culture which is allowed to in the 1st place the policies of civil lowden to continue unabated rosaura long misses the ball policy it has been told by successive governments for decades the government of course plays a big role in these arms deals and that has said that it will appeal the ruling what arguments would you expect the u. K. Government to make and how to read the chances of success. First of all we think that the case we presented was a very strong one and that is why the court of appeal came betty strongly dayin in our favor and we are confident in bakkies and confident that should be government who in an appeal that will lose again that is no surprise that the government isnt tending to appeal because the u. K. Government like the has spent decades arming and supporting human rights abusing regimes and dictatorships all in the world and it is not going to give up those highs easily because it spent decades building them up and say the arabian no matter how many atrocities breezing has committed were it has been the murder of Jamal Khashoggi or whether it has been the atrocities committed against yemen no matter how little it thinks its always been able to rely on the. Uncritical political military support of u. K. Prime ministers and u. K. Government. But the contender is remaining to become britains next Prime Minister will be possibly for a short term jeremy hunt Boris Johnson both defend arms sales. To riyadh is it something thats popular with the voters that. For one thing which brought us johnson and jeremy hunt have in common as it will have been signed off on arms sales to fatally as well of course because when Boris Johnson was born in sector g. He was approving licenses for bombs going over to riyadh he was approving sealable sorts of weapons really human so was jeremy hunt in fact earlier this year jeremy hunt was very publicly lobbying the German Government to end its ban on arms exports to sagely in case it did u. K. Arms companies and terms of where Public Opinion stands its very clear on this issue poll after poll shows that all the well meaning majority of people in the u. K. Are firmly opposed to beas arms deal but last my soul which was done when the train pins 100 settlement as a london vendor were only 6 percent of people in the whole countrys of poor arms sales to. This theres been more kind of mud flowing in the direction of the saudis in the sense that the un this week implicated the Saudi Crown Prince in the murder of the dissident genista marcus ag. If you throw that in with this subject as well what would it take to make the government change its attitude towards a rant. Well i think thats a big question is what it would take so much worse but how much worse the situation gets started even worse humanity eating places in the wild which people in yemen are in jewing and there is a greater switch uki armed to plead essential rule in and which you keep politicians have courted at every step of we. And in terms of what it would be to change that is going to challenge you to do because that youve done but also all of your political challenge as well and the needs of political change to the opposition in parliament has been very strong in recent years and we need that to continue growing because ultimately Public Opinion is from the against these arms deals with Public Opinion alone hasnt been enough to stop him and the atrocities certainly havent stopped him i. Do appreciate you coming on good to hear thoughts my guest anderson a spokesperson for the campaign against arms trade. Moving on for the news facebooks under fire again after a Technology Website reported through the spotlight on the way it treats staff the virtual so details the death of one of facebooks moderators is workstation revelations were made by staff from a facebook contractor in florida called cognizant who were paid to filter extreme images that appear on the site they disclosed poor working conditions among other issues they described having to work through as many as 200 draft videos a day including footage of animal cruelty and extreme violence state that they are forced to work in unsanitary conditions which include bedbug infestations they also face bodily waste issues at work stations on a regular basis as well as numerous verbal and physical fights another allegation raised was sexual harassment. Facebook itself says that hundreds all challenges related to the working environment. There will inevitably be employee challenges or dissatisfactions the call our commitment to this work and our partners the employees into question when the circumstances warrant action on the part of management we make sure it happens the social media giant under pressure to clamp down on what it allows online one incident in particular was the circulation of extremist content after 51. 00 people were killed in the christchurch massacre in new zealand earlier this year facebook and its contractor now vowing to introduce changes including salary boost and health care for staff we put the issue of the debate. I think i think fans who take a need to take more responsibility for their contractors this is as much about the law around working conditions in a particular offices and around the responsibility that facebook takes for its supply chain the the issue here is actually treating them better giving them better working conditions paying them more and and possibly keeping on top of the supply chain and making sure the cognizant aunt cutting corners and giving them enough budget to run it smoothly so that they dont have to cut corners in terms of freezing it is a matter for the Internet Companies this case for free to. Sufficient resources for moderation but the other. Is 1st we need greater cooperation between social Media Companies so for example google may have a much better if usually intelligence. Video contained because of its experience reduce. Cities to Share Technology we trace and the 2nd thing is to create Greater Transparency so to allow for an external body to go into facebook and all the. Process in terms of moderation i dont think the technology is yet sophisticated enough to be the solution quite yet and the moderators themselves can identify the type of content that needs action to be taken and action has been taken in some cases it hasnt been taken in all instances and we need to understand what the level of investment is where the thing the things are pouring through the cracks whether that is the congress and then what its reported to facebook what its passed on to the authorities we need to have a password or a more effective means of doing this but were not going to get away intel or Technology Improves dramatically were not going to go away from the need for human moderators the moderators need to be able to work very very and with great really great reels. So i think this is this is now the to do this much much more. Money into the all moderation process facebook needs to be investing far more in the technology to assist some of these moderators and you can pixelate out faces you can do certain measures to make it more pleasant for the employees are having to do this moderation. U. S. Military claims the use of Nuclear Weapons could create decisive results and restore strategic stability comes from a document recently made public but then classified aunties dont quarter picks up the story. Bombers submarines and Ballistic Missiles the pentagons triad of Nuclear Warfare usually atomic weapons are considered a means of deterrence but now classified documents suggest the war hawks in washington may have other ideas using Nuclear Weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability specifically the use of a Nuclear Weapon will fundamentally change the scope of a battle and create conditions that affect how commanders will prevail in conflict the 60 page document came out in early june only to be classified a week later by the pentagon its a surprise it wasnt a secret to begin with the fundamental principles underpinning washingtons Nuclear Operations are laid out for the world to see and they dont exactly correspond to some of president Donald Trumps past talk of nonproliferation between russia and china and does. Busy make. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth busy of weapons including nuclear which is ridiculous i think with that leader i think were always going to be the leader we have to be that leader i think its much better if we all got together and we didnt make these weapons so i think thats something that could be a phase 2 after this is done but then again trump himself hasnt been very consistent on Nuclear Posture either he called for talks with both the president s of russia and china just last year to put an end to a socalled uncontrollable arms race several months later trump accused russia of developing missiles prohibited by the 1987 i. N. F. Treaty although moscow denied violating the agreement signed to specifically prevent an arms race the u. S. Withdrew the United States will therefore suspend its obligations under the n f treaty effective february 2nd and its no secret the pentagons long been on the anti russia bandwagon and 2018 its Nuclear Posture review accused russia of producing more nonstrategic and i n f banned weapons. But a recent article by the American Federation of scientists about d. O. D. Exaggerations pointed out Something Interesting that the Nuclear Posture review contradicts itself their own statistics indicate that russia had between 3 and 5000 nukes in 2009224000 in 20112000 are less than 2018 exaggerating the threat from russia only justify spending more money on weapons that can annihilate humanity and with the risk of nuclear war and a tie if since world war 2 theres no time for war games seeming double standard is to present trump and as someone who is reluctant to go to war the document i believe was a unit of fear not only to probe the current belligerent rhetoric oh the trumpet ministration but it is a will to buttress his Foreign Policy which is aggressive aggressive. In south america aggressive in the middle east aggressive and. The taliban with just half an hours time see them. Describing the Trump Administrations iran policy is confusing contradictory and even incoherent would be an understatement as members of his administration beat the drums of war the president suddenly injects themselves into the conversation with words to the. World. Im going to see for just. Its its its going good. I am involved with a friend at the moment she was in california i live in minnesota so theres a distance there we need to know each other we talk. Its not easy making new friends after Something Like this. Well what do you do before you came here where did you work before you came here when you live. Well. They dont know what to do with that you know they are. Its just one of those situations where you have to realize that not everyone out here is out to ruin your life there are some who are actually interested in knowing you and helping you. The state of ohio says the new drug combo used to actually cue Dennis Mcguire in january work properly