To submityours at the q a button located at the top of your screen. Todays briefing is from general hr mcmaster, senior fellow at the hoover institution. It was the 26th National Security advisor to the president of the United States and served as Commission Officer in the army for 34 years before retiring as Lieutenant General in june 2018. His latest book is entitled battle grounds. And it will be released in september and its available for preorder now on amazon. Thanks for your serviceand thanks for joining us today. Its great closure to be with you and to be with everyone. I know youve been watching these briefings regularly and the coverage of the aspects involved with covid19. A lot of our discussions have been focused on the pandemic and our economy and today with you i like to discuss the rest of the world, particularly the geopolitical threats that have been accelerated by covid19. Im going to ask you to take a tour around the world which should be a lot of fun. Lets start wi
Baghdad and also more recently he has been trying to prevent chaos from erupting in iraq he had nothing to do with killing protesters on the streets of iraq iraq is a is a mess and the mess is because of u. S. Policy the United States destroyed iraq the United States created Saddam Hussein gave them chemical weapons one day then became his enemy another day they impose sanctions on iraq he has killed a 1000000 people then they invaded the country and destroyed the country then the americans helped create extremism in syria with the saudis and others and thats that the those extremists came into iraq because the iraq no longer had infrastructure the iranians came and helped iraqis say that the dog was on the verge of falling and the United States refused to help the Iraqi Government this is something that obama himself admitted so the americans have now assassinated they have murdered an e a senior iraq iranian. Official they violated International Law they outrage the iranian people ou
Also tonight. Up to a million Public Sector workers look set for an above inflation pay rise, but there are questions about who foots the bill. Five people crammed into a one bedroom flat we speak to two single mothers about the uks housing crisis. Despite a brave late fight, rory mcilroy is out of the open at royal portrush. And america lights up the Washington Monument to mark the 50th anniversary of the apollo moon landings. You want to go to the moon . Yes. Do you think you will ever get there . I dont know. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news Julian Alaphilippe extends his lead over Geraint Thomas after a stunning time trial win on stage 13 of the tour de france. Good evening. In a dramatic escalation of ongoing tensions, iran has tonight seized two vessels in the gulf a british flagged oil tanker and a liberian flagged ship. Its operated by a british company. The former, the stena impero, was bound for saudi arabia, but was tracked moving dramatically off course this afternoon
Hello and welcome everybody, its 11 30 am here in the iranian capital tehrani, watching press tvs world news, our top story for this half hour, israels genocidal war in the gaza strip is now in its 160th day with a regime pounding the blockaded territory with more air strikes and artillery fire. Israels latest strike hit an honoral Aid Distribution Center in the Southern City of rafa leaving five palace. Palestinians dead. Israeli forces also open fire a group of palestinians waiting for eight in northern gaza, killing at least six people and injuring over 80 others. A regime areaid targeting house in jabalia refugee camp killed at least one civilian leaving several others injured in rafa, two civilians were killed and some others injured after Israeli Forces bombed their vehicle. Gaza Health Ministry says nearly 31,300 palestinians, mostly women and children have been killed so far in the israeli genis. Since early october of last year, over 73,00 others have also been injured. The us
Hello and welcome everybody, its 8 30 am here in the iranian capital tejaron watching press tvs world news, our top story for this half hour, israels genocidal war in the gaza strip is now in its 160th day with the regime pounding the blockaded territory with more air strikes and artillery fire. Israels latest strike it an honoral Aid Distribution Center in the Southern City of rafa leaving five palestinians dead Israeli Forces also open fire. A group of palestinians waiting for aid in northern gaza, killing at least six people, and injuring over 80 others. A regime erade targeting house in jabalia refugee camp, killed at least one civilian, leaving several others injured. In rafa, two civilians were killed and some others injured after Israeli Forces bombed their vehicle. Gaza Health Ministry says nearly 31,300 palestinians, mostly women and children have so far been killed in the israeli genocide since early last october, over 73 . Thousand others have been injured. Will the us decis