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A neighborhood. My screams, he called me and asked whats going on. I explain and been attacked and he wanted to call the police, but it was the police. Its outrageous. And a relative of a civilian reportedly killed in a u. S. Drone strike in yemen says he continues to live in fear that says a top court in germany rules. Berlin could legally distance itself from potential american war crimes conducted from german soil. A very warm welcome to you here at r. T. International. My name is donald quarter, taking you through our world news stories this hour. Thanks for joining us. Scientists labeled the father of Irans Nuclear program has been killed on the outskirts of to rob it in response. The u. N. Has called for restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an escalation. Irans envoy to the global body warned that israel in the United States against any provocative moves. A local reporter gave us more details about the killing, which iran has branded a state act of terror. Senior iranian scientist was killed on a highway near tehran. Theres not much detail about the number of people involved in the attack, or number of People Killed in the incident, and skirmish tacked to place some 75 kilometers outside to iran, north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. You know, apparently it did in traffic was quite less than usual in comparison to the other days. And did the terrorists apparently caught into the vehicle of the scientists newsmedia say, dad, there was an explosion. And then there was a gunfire. Berridge of gunfire. Bits been the Security Officials and sasan tactic, which is killing on the roll is similar tactic those attacks that carried out almost a decade ago. There was the result of such assassinations on a rainy and scientists big claim. Clive top iranian scientists, iranian officials have pointed the finger at israel. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously accused the slain scientist of being the driving force behind irans alleged Nuclear Weapons program. Our cheesily a patrol spoke with my colleague unit oneill earlier. Well, were getting all indications that this was a well coordinated complicated attack on the man that some western intelligence agencies have flagged. As the person behind irans alleged covert Nuclear Weapons program to rand firmly denies wanting anything like it. So this situation is nowhere near. Something in which the killer just points a gun at the victim and then shoots and kills here, it was much more complicated. Like i said, because explosives were used and there were even reports that this could have been a suicide attack. And then gunfire followed the explosion. Which left the vehicle with the scientists bullet marks. So this explains why the Iranian Defense ministry called this a terrorist attack from the very beginning, but all of that couldnt kill the man immediately he was taken to hospital where he died. So once again, here, were talking about a prominent Iranian Nuclear scientists. He had a team of bodyguards trying to protect them, but that couldnt save his life though the world i think is waiting to see what to run is going to do. Has to be any clue as to what the reaction, the initial reaction from tehran, senior officials . What have they been saying about this . Who did this . Whats going to happen . While the Iranian Foreign minister is making it clear once again that iran purely treat this as an act of state terror, jawad zarif is pointing the finger at israel, and also he is demanding International Attention to wrists, murdered an imminent iranian scientists. Today. This cowardice with serious indications of this really rule show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. Iran calls on the International Community and especially you see and their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. Well, so far there has been no response from israel and charlie at this point. We cannot make any conclusions about possible connections between this murder and also the rhetoric that we have been hearing from israeli officials on Irans Nuclear activities. But the fact is that 2 years ago and 28. 00 taking the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called up the name of the murdered scientist and accused him not only of being behind the alleged military element of Irans Nuclear Program Years ago. But also he accused them of continuing to covertly run the program up until present times. Remember the main focus of the so heres director right here. And this is the generally is to announce the closure project. But then the special activities, you know, what the special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. Continue this work in a series of organizations over the years. We just put this in context, the story of the Iranian Nuclear program, at least in the past 2 decades, has resembled a game of nonstop ping pong. If i may put it this way, that is to iran, constantly repeating and trying to convince the International Community that its Nuclear Activities are purely of a peaceful nature. And then also the anti to ron international law, be led by israel, constantly repeating that iran is only trying to fool the world. However, it seems that a bit more than 5 years ago, israel and its political allies, started losing this game of ping pong because the most Important International players, including the u. S. And russia, were able to hammer out the socalled iran nuclear deal. And in fact, International Observers were let into the country and they didnt find any proof of military activities on Irans Nuclear sites. So at some point the status quo was broken because of a decision by the Donald Trump Administration to quit the deal which led to a situation in which to iran decided to abandon some of its commitments. There. You have that tension and an extra wave of the sort of say, Irans Nuclear crisis. And now we have this murder of a rainy and nuclear scientist, which will definitely have International Consequences analyst for both iran and israel gave us their thoughts about the killing. Of course, this assassination is illegal and its an act of war. He was a high ranking iranian official, when they see aspires, arrested in iran, or in a terrorist is arrested in iran, immediately western human rights organizations, governments, the media pundits, experts all say that theyre innocent as if they have some sort of insider information. Yet when these attacks are carried out, these attacks are carried out with the help of spies with the help of terrorists, and they gloat over it. And instead of condemning it, they go and you know, they try to make him look as if hes evil. So this is the hypocrisy that we see in the western media and among western governments. These laws will respond. So you cannot put the blame on israel. Everything is possible in the middle east and in prison, these bodies, and then to fire them. And if they claim that is behind it, lets see if those people are really israelis right now, i doubt very much, but we know a lot of names over gauged in this project. Their names were published. These are these really prayers a few times that this doesnt mean that this world is behind this assignation. Incident comes at a time when relations between the u. S. And iran are essentially at rock bottom. Specifically after the trumpet, ministration. Quit the key nuclear deal, which was struck back in 2015. Arties new york correspondent, caleb mop and outlines the tense diplomacy right now between washington and tehran. Well, the trajectory of u. S. Iran relations over the past few years has been quite negative. Things have been moving in quite a bad direction between the 2 countries. Donald trump has presided over a situation where the usa and iran are moving further apart, and prominent iranians have been killed. Back in january, donald trump ordered a drone strike directed against qassam solomonic that resulted in qassam somani death, and that caused outrage throughout the region. He was a leader of the Islamic Revolutionary guards. He ran military operations against isis ill, to protect christians in syria. And in iraq, and he was designated as a terrorist by the United States. Now, when he was killed, there were protests throughout the region. There was, there were protests in the arab world in pakistan, and yemen in turkey. There were also protests in response to that killing by donald trump. A huge amount of outrage. Many voices internationally spoke up and felt this was a very unnecessary escalation of tensions between the United States and iran. And we also recall that prior to that assassination, donald trump had withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal. He pulled out of the jay c. P. O. Away and he said it was the worst deal of the century. This is donald trump. I recruit from the last administration was disastrous. If i didnt terminate that stupid, the deal was a disaster. The agreement that was, it was a disaster. Now the escalations havent only been directly between the United States and iran, but weve seen an embracing by the United States of netanyahu. And his feeling that there needs to be an escalation with iran in the region. You know, we saw donald trump move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. And recently we saw mike pompei o. Go on a tour of the middle east. And, you know, tout the fact that at this point, there are some governments in the arab world that have recognized israel. And it seems like the effort of the United States is to mobilize and polarize the region between israel and iran. Take a listen to my palm, pale thanks to president group, the u. S. To go to the Nuclear Review with the rhone. Please crippling sanctions on the reunion regime and the group to go some soon be a record speaks for itself. During the trip administration, america stands with israel like never before. d now, many were hoping that things may change with joe biden in the white house after all, joe biden was Vice President under barack obama, and it was the Obama Administration that negotiated the iran nuclear deal, which donald trump pulled out up. However, and then or many are looking at whats happened since the signing of the Iran Nuclear Agreement in 2015 and seeing the United States pulling out of that agreement more sanctions being placed on iran, the killing of qassam solomonic. Now there is the incident which took place today with the killing of this nuclear scientist. And many are wondering if that is really possible. Is there really hope for the United States and iran to sit down once again and make any progress in, in bettering the relationship between the 2 countries . It will certainly be difficult for a biden ministration. If indeed they intend to take these moves. Fessor of middle Eastern Studies at the university of oklahoma, Joshua Landis believes the Incoming Biden Administration will not want to make relations with iran any worse than they are right now. Braun has many reasons to trust, distrust the United States. But at the same time, theres a lot of pressure for a deal. The United States and in president biden, in his administration, are not going to want to get into a military confrontation with iran. Its lunacy for the United States to get into another war in the middle east, particularly with a country as powerful as iran. If they dont fix this year on situation and neutralize it in some way. Theyre going to be stuck in the middle east. This is a quagmire for them because iran is not going to put up with being starved to death. And, and the United States isnt going to put up with iran, moving increasingly towards refinement of, of nuclear of uranium. So the 2 have to make a deal. Now, theyve proven that they can do it, and trump came along and rubbish, the whole thing, thinking that hed get a better deal. And that what weve seen now is that the United States in a much worse position than it was 40 years ago. And. And that the trump policy didnt work. So i think everybody is going to put their shoulder to the wheel and try to get back to some agreement with iran. Shameful is what the french president called video footage, which captured the moment for Police Officers beat a black man in paris. Michels eckler, who is a music producer, was followed to his studio for not wearing a face mask, may find Security Camera video disturbing but there are also photos showing the extent of the mans injuries. Again, some graphic imagery ahead. Michelle was left with a head and facial wounds as well as a torn tendon. He was initially placed in Police Custody where he spent 48 hours and was only seen by a doctor after that. The charges against him, of violence and rebellion were later dropped, following the emergence of the video, evidence and will do if you see it. It was very hard when they fired tear gas that was at the back. I tried to call my lawyer. I tried to call a lot of people, even a neighbor heard my screams. He called me and asked whats going on. I explain it, ive been attacked and he wanted to call the policeman. It was the police. Its outrageous. I cant even tell you what im waiting for. I wish of course, that this never happens again to anyone. Whether there are cameras or not, it should never happen. The police are here to protect us. So now local media reports claim the officers were suspicious of the mans lack of a face mask and detected the smell of drugs on him. They also claim he tried to attack them and grab their weapons. The 4 officers have now been suspended and a criminal inquiry has been launched. The shells lawyer says that the video saved her client from prison. You know, if theyre hitting him with their telescopic badness, they dont stop hitting him. The video less for 12 minutes of violence in the video is essential because my client was initially in detention. They detained him, accused of violence against a Person Holding public authority. So its essential and its extremely serious. If we didnt have this video, perhaps my client would be in prison for an extremely serious infraction. This incident comes as a new security bill is provoking widespread protests in france if passed in january. It would make sharing videos or images of the Police Illegal if they could potentially put the officers at risk. A member of the committee against Police Violence told us this new case shows why filming police in public is essential. We are again seeing Police Violence. The video from the Security Camera was actually taken by the victim. Its a private video. It proves that the Police Report was folks, this is just one of countless cases in from dealing with the have been lots of them recently. For example, the case of cedric which was widely covered by the media with Police Officers following him and reports on it. And then video proves it folks. The situation was different. Unfortunately, the Justice System seems to take the word of the police for this reason video that captures the police in action is needed to start an investigation, as in this case. And secondly, to provide sufficient evidence. According to germany has ruled the country isnt liable for possible war crimes connected to u. S. Drone strikes controlled from its territory, washington has coordinated a number of operations through the Ramstein Air Base. Now that the lawsuit of the yemeni nationals has been tonight, the federal Administrative Court has explained that a general implication for protection in favor of foreigners in Foreign Countries can exist. But southern quire means differently than the higher administrative warrant. This ruling in light sig means that the German Government has no responsibility to guarantee that u. S. Drone strikes that are operated from a u. S. Base on german soil. That they adhere to International Human rights law that they fall within the remits that overturns a ruling in a german court in munster last year, which said exactly the office. Its in said that berlin did bear responsibility. It also went on to say that the German Government knew u. S. Missions that would be operated from the Ramstein Air Base in the south of germany violated international law. And the case was brought originally back in 2014 by human Rights Groups representing the families of yemeni people who had been killed by u. S. Drone strikes. One of those family members spoke to the press following the ruling at this case at the court in light sick. And he said, it is a severe blow. My family cannot live free from fear while these drones flying with germanys help hover over our community in yemen. Threatening to bring death and destruction. U. S. Drone strikes, targeted yemen for well over a decade. The main targets have been al qaeda terrorists operating on the ground, but they havent been the only ones that have been struck. Weve also, according to the, the bureau for investigative journalism, seen 200. 00 civilians or at least 200. 00 civilians with around 50 children, also being killed in these airstrikes. Now the European Center for constitutional and human rights based here in berlin is described. The ruling is disappointing. One of their lawyers going even further on social, he said that the court has chosen to believe the word of the government, the United States, that since 2001 has employed torture, kidnap, and killing under the guise of fighting against terrorism. This is clearly a lot of very high temperatures running here over this court ruling. In fact, reprieve the Human Rights Group that helped finance the yemeni familys court case. They are extremely unhappy with this ruling. What were talking about here is a secret to Cessation Program that kills schools of civilians each year. It is simply unsustainable and despite the ruling very clearly unlawful. Well, earlier this year in may, the United States put out a statement in which they said that they killed no civilians in their drone strike operations in 2019. They had put out a similar statement saying that theyve killed no civilians in 2018 as well. But the statements are highly disputed by human Rights Groups whove been working on the ground German Left Party member, martin dolls, or believes berlin should have resisted washingtons pressure. I think the German Government and lets say the german move leitz they are afraid of, disappointing. d the n. R. A. , the United States of america and their government. But i think international law. d d and the human rights should stand in the middle of any decision although. d caught in the middle of any decision of the government and there should be no. d pressure to well crimes, and we have information information and there is evidence as well that drones killing civilians. And this has to be taken into account the German Government test of the true. What happens in the base of writing style is under control of the us army. And so under the control in the last instance, you know the. d Us Government to allow mind to, to the mind of cliff stunned because because this control issue for faster than light updates on are all your world news stories. Make sure to check out our website r. T. And follow us on twitter. Thatll be all for now. But ill be back in about 30 minutes with more and i hope to see you then. 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