Plus a Major International military exercise in central russia enters its final stage with china and india among those taking part. Thanks for joining us this is. Donald trump has announced further sanctions on iran in the wake of the strikes on Saudi Aramco Oil facilities last week the new restrictions targeted around central bank. These are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country never done it to this level and its too bad whats happening with the rand its going to hell now trump is calling at the highest level of sanctions ever imposed against the Islamic Republic of iran now the sanctions are being imposed in response to the recent attack against any aramco oil facility saudi arabia says that iran is to blame for the attack now iran vehemently denies that they are responsible says that they did not carry out this attack and that this is a deception from saudi arabia interestingly who the forces in yemen have claimed responsibility for the attack but saudi arabia says it doubts that the who the forces have the capability of carrying out such a strike now there was some anticipation of a possible military response from the United States but now donald trump has come forward and said that there will be an escalation of sanctions against iran this highest level of sanctions and sanctions imposed on irans National Bank but not a military response this is donald trump speaking to journalists easiest thing i could do if i could do it while youre here which say go ahead fellows going to knock out 15 different major things in around i could do that and all set to go its all set to go but i think the strong persons approach and the thing that does show strength would be showing a little bit of restraint now while saudi arabia maintains they are sure that it is iran was responsible on thursday we heard from the pentagon and they said they are still investigating and havent come to solid conclusions let yet this is the u. S. Department of defense our position on this has been were going to work through with the saudis as they make their assessment of what took place so were going to work with them but were going to allow the saudis to make the declarations on where they believe the attacks came from and the ultimate responsibility unlike the pentagon might pompei o who is. On a regional visit to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates said he is sure iran was responsible. Do you gather any new evidence that shows who is behind the attacks and do you think it is slam dunk case to bring to the u. N. Next week. I think its abundantly clear and there is an enormous consensus in the region that we know precisely who conducted these attacks was iran i didnt hear anybody in the region who doubted that for a single mom so it seems there is no hard evidence and rather than waiting for the u. N. Team to come to a conclusion after investigating it seems the United States has responded by taking these actions against iran and imposing these new sanctions despite the fact that no hard evidence seems to be presented and that the u. N. Team has not concluded its investigation and has not reached any conclusions about who is responsible now its also important to point out that iran has reacted saying that it will offer a response to the u. S. Plots. Hostname political analyst commentator joins me on the line of very good evening to you. What do you think of the news of these new sanctions what i think is a maximum pressure campaign. 1st of all i think the United States is like has been said by many completely addicted to sanctions in terms of its reasoning behind why theyve decided to put these sanctions on and you know trump trumps bellicose rhetoric where he said that you know he can just Say Something and theyll go and hit 15 random targets in iran and other stupid things this idiot says all the time. I think the reality is that america is through its behavior through its really subservience to the saudi and israeli projects i think its really isolating itself this is not good for america this is certainly not putting america 1st the sanctions against iran clearly have not worked have not you know stopped iran and its tracks if anything iran has proven how resilient it is and we have to understand that iran is a country with a very very long history you know close to maybe 345000 years americas like barely out of nappies you know its what 2300 years old really and its actually a subtle state built on blood so its very. Its very revealing that america things with all these weapons and everything it can go away and make all these sanctions against iran it doesnt really sold anything for america what does it achieve really its not going to make iran bend the knee its going to rob bring all of the countries america is currently in some sort of war footing with china russia etc its going to bring everyone closer against america so really this is isolating america more so plus if you go into the idea of. Pompei was saying that you know theres a you know evidence and proof that its you know iran behind these these attacks and no one else is disputing it 1st of all hes sitting in the United Arab Emirates a Shopping Mall with a flag this is someone who. These are all vassal states of america saudi arabia bihari in u. A. E. All of these countries are vassal states of america they will say yes immediately the point the moment america says something straight away plus they want a war with iran they need a war with iran so you know and there is no evidence everyone knows anyone with half a brain knows even the pentagon knows that iran wasnt behind this we do feel resistance the Yemeni Resistance to return and have fought back and its not surprising that they have fought back and be able to fight back when people are pushed down they are pummeled they are bombed to smithereens theyre not going to sit down and take it they will adapt human beings do this this is you know if you want to use a darwinian no this is a 5 all of the fittest and clearly the Saudi Arabians and their allies are not the fittest by any stretch because for yemeni drones this much damage just for drones did this much damage can you imagine like trump thinking that he can fire into into iran or anywhere else he cant do anything from can make a lot of noise they can talk but really its not its not relevant theyre not americas not relevant anymore plus with russia and the brics organization saying that look we oppose these illegal sanctions against iran and we will support iran this is this is huge i mean we all know that when iran and russia and china and everyone got together the project called that was taken out in syria and iraq continues to interrupt you talked about the lack of evidence. What do you make of the differing opinions from the pentagon and mike pompei a over the saudi attacks the other pentagon whats the saudi investigation to discover any blame the player says its definitely iran why the disagreement. Well look pompei oh you know hes ex e. I. A. Hits in his blood to lie pathologically i mean this man said it was iran before the missiles and even landed you know this is someone he wants a war i mean hes basically i suppose a more cuddly version of bolton who is now gone so hes going to lie hes even be hes on the record there are videos of him saying while he was head of the cia that we lie this is what we do so anything that comes out of this criminals mouth cannot be trusted hes not trustworthy and so when he says something ok frank let him speak hes just a spokesman who lies when the pentagon is saying and being cautious and saying look we need you know to investigate we need to find out exactly what happened over here this is something that has at least a little bit more credibility but i would say the highest credibility is with the fact that the Yemeni Resistance immediately took responsibility in the direction of where the weapon the missiles came from all of this and the fact that look weve got examples of surprises being made by small resistance groups against big behemoths weve got hezbollah in lebanon which managed to put up a huge fight and terrify the israelis who were considered the most powerful military in the middle east saudi arabia by you know by comparison is a joke they dont even know how to tie their own shoelaces you know the saudi military people theyre useless they have to bring people in from the outside so fun side of the law and the whole Thing Movement to turn around and create these drones which are not Rocket Science that maybe 1020000. 00 apiece really so they are. All running slightly i literally want to go on but what is up with a feeling idling yeah whats humiliating for saudi for america more so i think you know should be crying about this is that all of the trillions of dollars of Missile Defense systems like me the patriot and all of this rubbish. It failed to spot these 4 drones that took out what we are told is like half of saudi arabias oil capacity all Production Capacity this is where America Needs to step back and say look hold on a minute we cant really make any decisions on anything we need to go back to the drawing board we actually need to make ourselves great again we actually need to worry about it all is a shabby as i mentioned we have resort of run over our time slot for this appreciate your house in our political analysts think. Facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg has met with the president on social media platforms chiefs looking to defend his company amid mounting criticism over privacy issues and Data Protection in a recent legal case facebook claimed that it is a publisher and is therefore allowed to ban who it wants but potentially that would also make it liable for what goes out on its platform responsibility its previously tried to dodge on the side of trying to look at the potential ramifications so what have we got here. Thats better. Plaintive ultra right activist laura loom or who was taken off pretty much all major Online Platforms defendant facebook one of the giants which kicked her out we carefully flicked through these court papers which the defendant filed could fly and bury the lawsuit and heres what really caught the eye. To the extent miss lewis claimed targets facebooks decision to deactivate her accounts it is also deficient on the well established law need to facebook know any of the publisher can be liable for failing to publish someone elses message 1st amendment provides absolute protection for such decisions what was it again neither facebook nor any other publisher protection by the 1st amendment so in this particular case the lawyers of sucking co are happy to legally refer to their social network as up publisher digging a bit deeper will reveal facebook has done that in the past as well when last year an app startup was crossing swords with facebook in court this is what came from the network spent the publisher discretion is a 3 speechwriter respective what technological means is used so is it just me or somethings wrong with how the platform we use every day identifies itself because when facebook bosses take questions in other places it seems they always try to distance themselves from the notion publisher which are you are you a tech company or are you the Worlds Largest publisher because i think that goes to a really important question on what form of regulation or Government Action if any we would take. Senator this is. A really big question i view us as a tech company because the primary thing that we do is build technology and products are you responsible for your content which make exactly on of a publisher. Well i agree that were responsible for the content we dont produce the content and thats been the message for quite a while. We are a tech company not a media company. I do think we have to be the publisher and we definitely dont want to be the arbiter of the truth now just imagine what kind of legal trouble the tech giant may put itself in if it becomes universally recognized the company Mr Zuckerberg is running is a publisher not just a tech platform are they really ready to be responsible for anything disturbing more outright criminal that gets posted under the blue logo the examples have been out there in abundance. The way. Or what if simply someone decides to lawyer and bully me with all kinds of offensive stuff right on facebook should i then also follow defamation suit against the network because they as a publisher a lot of its well known you cant have a cake and eat it at the same time or probably unless your last name is sucker berg. Austrian m. P. s are urging vienna to veto a major trade deal between the e. U. And south america theyre unhappy about the way brazil is handling the large scale amazon fires similar concerns been expressed by france and germany the many businesses do work with firms that have a direct connection to the zante shiela dubious case planes its an environmentalist Worst Nightmare wildfires raging in the amazon destroying the worlds most biodiverse tropical rain forest. Our house is burning literally the amazon rainforest the lungs which produce 20 percent of our planets oxygen is on fire as an International Crisis i couldnt agree more manual macro we need to act for the amazon and for our planet are kids and grandkids are counting on us the lungs of the entire earth our frac to and thats why we need to find Common Solutions here leaders of the globes most advanced countries pledged to do more at the g. 7 the heat may have died down but the blame game certainly hasnt with some looking closely at where the amazon wus may. Europes Financial Institutions the companies and the financier is housed in those countries are contributing to the forestation many of these companies are known to have unsuitable practices in their supply chain to be clearing areas for the expansion of agriculture especially pursuing cattle so yeah and cattle ranching account for 80 percent of Amazon DeforestationMajor Companies such as a. T. M. Call gail j. B. S. Are being financed by some of us biggest banks including b. M. P. Paragraphs dont spank and block walk they not only bankroll the debt theyre also major shareholders with the force in how these companies are run so this areas of the amazonas sometimes. To provide all earned for cows to graze or to grow crops to feed life stock these european banks are directly building the forestation do it your bank he black rock in vanguard collectively more than a 1000000000. 00 in debt in just the 3 largest saw in the 3 largest cattle Companies Operating in brazil are these in you banks often vocal about their sustainability policies. Are also being accused of hypocrisy Environmental Campaign group amazo watch contacting them about their work in the amazon was fine as well Deutsche Bank and blackhawk didnt respond b. M. P. Paragraphs had to say between people rebar has been strengthening insecta policies related to deforestation for several years and this prompted its clients to protect natural ecosystems and preserve biodiversity to the best of their abilities but that experts say is just simply not good enough we can encourage that use it findings here take a role in requiring that the companies have certain standards and the doubt deforestation commitments that they implement those commitments and that they were poor on their progress to address the deforestation with in their supply chains given that even if theyre not producing these materials or directly clearing the forests they have a role to play in ensuring that that clearance doesnt happen without the traceability and the accountability of all actors involved including here in europe the fear is that our house will continue to. Show. Off powers. West bank for comment on the links to the forestation of them as long we await their response. Central russia Major International military exercise center 2019 is a sunday away in addition to the host nations including china and india who are involved the drill aims to take corporation between the neighbors to a new level in the face of ice alike terror threats when spectators for dinner putin was watching the maneuvers the president also meeting his cake his counterpart. This is a very loud if press of spectacle the simulated food terrorists have predictably been beaten back and just a few meters away from us we have military observers from all over the world i counted at least a dozen nato badges watching the show watching the spectacle glad to be a putin with the present in the stands as well 20 meters away from us but theres a purpose to this is isnt just a shoe for enjoyment to a spectacle this is an exercise to form a unity to Form Corporation between asian nations asian states that threatened by islamic radicalism and this is their effort to sort of get to get to know each other get to Work Together even if india and pakistan and odds with each other open conflict working together here behind me as i reported earlier the story is radical islamist terrorists of come to power in a simulated Central Asian republic theyve formed a quasi caliph that if you will and the mission in. Is to stop them to prevent them from seizing any New Territory if you come into possession of advanced weapons and being belligerent awards participating nations and participating are 8 countries representing a good heart full of the worlds population china India Pakistan russia as well as for Central Asian republics their mission is to stop the terrorists and prevent them from taking any more territory to defend themselves the military contingency representing those 8 nations amanda 128000 troops as well as 20000 vehicles and tanks of all time on tiller air defense missiles systems as well as 600 aircraft including drones the military exercises themselves are stretched over a 6 day period across a variety of different battlefields and today the grand crescendo the objective is to hold an enemy attack knock out their cruise missiles and at the end go on the offensive and crush them the point of these military exercises isnt to show off any participating nations to some degree will face the threat of radical extremism and the point of these war games is to make sure that if worst comes to worse than these people come to power that the participating nations can present a united front and to stop an enemy that has demonstrated its remorseless merciless and capable of anything. Of pakistan also taking part political commentator john white emphasize the importance of the country joining india in the 2 its theres a growing trend of cooperation between countries in central asia and it makes perfect sense given that the komen traits especially with regards to global terrorism hugely significant visible to citizen of india and pakistan of course take changes over to actually you know be very very high and get the newest article in mature that has existed it was good to see this is a testament tribute to the difficult diplomacy of china russia countries into and to disagreement was fatally important in this corporation is that is what integration. Between countries because you dont know whats going to unfold in afghanistan its very important for the countries who are in the region to have some sort of brought against any injury. In some way to achieving that. Several 100 people have gathered in the the valley the desert in the u. S. Under the rallying cry storm area 51. 00 started as a joke campaign to break into the secretive military base but its ended up attracting almost 2000000 supporters on facebook many claim the american governments hiding u. F. O. s the festival called alien stock was due to be held in the nearby town that was counseled last week this not stop the u. F. O. Enthusiasts from descending despite warnings from authorities of other air space has been shut down on friday to protect the facility on quarter experts. Its been day weve all been waiting for a chance to discover if weve been contacted by aliens over 2000000 people have already said theyre going to storm an area 51 top secret u. S. Military base its notoriously connected to u. F. O. Sightings and 2 teens have already gotten their feet wet transparence was caught near area 51. 00 to a man from the netherlands arrested after getting 3 miles inside the Valid National security site it was just a joke at 1st a Facebook Event encouraging people to storm the mysterious space. We will move me jump in rural nevada and cool neato impose g. s if we no room to run we can move faster than their bullets lets see them allianz even the guy who came up with the idea wasnt taking it too seriously it was all fun and games until the f. B. I. Came knocking on his door thinking he could be a terrorist it started out as it does from a pure stroke of imagination its just meant to be funny i want to do something cool out there now that we have a bunch of people but i dont want anybody to get hurt still that hasnt stopped people from jumping on the bandwagon maybe most will just stick to being keyboard warriors and chicken out at the last minute ok but the authorities are not treating this as a joke which may just be adding to the curiosity. All joking aside were taking it very seriously on nation has secrets and those secrets deserve to be protected secrets well theyve got to be important because extra security and barricades have already been prepared and anticipation of the horde it also doesnt help that several videos have surfaced in recent years i suppose of u. F. O. Sightings all captured by u. S. Navy pilots. Could be. And the navy only added fuel to the fire of speculation when it labeled those objects on identified aerial phenomena the navy does ignatz the objects contained in these videos as. A real phenomenon the unidentified aerial phenomena terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings observations of. Objects that have been observed entering operating in the as space various military controlled training ranges government secrecy always will fuel all kinds of speculation when you have a government that is not transparent its going to lose the confidence of the people this was the lesson of the soviet union its the lesson of the United States today where there is a lack of transparency where people know that theyre not getting the truth from their government on a large number of matters area 51 and you oppose in general have never gone away in the public imagination certainly not in the United States. There have been many sightings of apparent u. S. Those in the vicinity of area 51 and people know about that and theres always been the stories so. I think it has captured the imagination of a lot of people we might not know how many people are really going to this area 51 a vent but one things for sure. U. S. Government is acting like its got something to hide on the border r. T. The young russian actor detained at an opposition protest in moscow has been released under a travel ban this case galvanize support from activists especially among the acting community refinishing has more. Mosco court has changed previous decision and pov a listing of has been released on the travel ban russias general Prosecutors Office as well as the countrys own which men all have been calling for softening the initial punishment for these young men but many believe that todays decision is not about that but rather about a victory of a Civil Society and 100 percent result of unified actions and afterwards and solidarity of people who simply believed that pavol osteen of had been convicted wrongfully and that was exactly what puddle sr and his mom talked about after the decision was announced that that in the absolute the fine thank everyone for this the media the Public People and actors and even the prosecutor who finally heard us today i was sitting in the hearing with a new film because everything is different now it was obvious that after so much support from the public the decision would change now he can be at home its a victory for all of us pavol scase caused an unprecedented wave of defiance and support from celebrities to ordinary people we saw them lining up for what is known as one man protest this is the easiest legal way of protesting demonstrating here in russia and there was also a Massive Online Campaign with actors and other public figures publishing their video statements in support for. Demanding his release but just know that wilson we have just finished a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar and we actors from the more soviet theater express our support for our colleagues have all seen of receiving this. Im joining the freedom to buy the listing of you know job russian yes to justice as for this tragic case in the movie. We sincerely express often support for him and his family patients the whole justice will prevail. Earlier monday populist. 23 year old russian actor was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violence against a Police Officer during hes arrest at an unauthorized opposition rally in central most going early august but before that short of the moment of the arrest of populist you know it was published and pavol was seen there walking normally in the middle of the square your mind other people. Who are a policeman in full here riot gear with rubber sticks him to the ground and actually to be do did not give the answer to the obvious question what happened before that moment and why Police Officers single pavol among all the people in the square by was very strong and when the judge refused to use this video as an added a huge massive compay in protest pain started that led us here today has been released under a travel ban. Street where