Youre watching the weekly here are not. U. S. President called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before it was jus to be launched since neither a war monger nor a dove but with common sense he just wants to kill anybody quote unless its absolutely necessary. One thing i want to know and i want to know it accurately is accurately. How many. I dont want to. Read. I dont want to kill. Anybody. Counsel to time it was meant to be in retaliation to tehran downing of a u. S. Military surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz iran said it was ready to quote to its collection of downed drones if washington violates space on the scale of morbid possible. In terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid now iran is said that the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the United Nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this point weve got the Iranian Foreign minister condemning the United States for what he calls economic terrorism the us wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now encroaches on our territory we dont seek war but was jealous lead to fend off sky land and water as well take this new aggression to the u. N. And show you that the u. S. Is lying about International Waters now the u. N. Secretary general antonio gets here as is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. The situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really need any measure of confrontation in the russian president Vladimir Putin recently said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous id like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u. S. And iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences its very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is powerless in toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the United States has approached iran during the trumpet ministration their neighbors or spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east its a rare. Major destabilize. Influence in the middle east spread death destruction and weve been trying to do is to get iran to behave like a normal nation now the United States recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the Islamic Republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the United States blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials rejected those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u. N. Where International Bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes are on washington as a response from the United States could be very possible. Art see new york. As the blame game ramps up washington is tightening the economic screws on to new sanctions to hit the Islamic Republic on monday. People in new york if they would support a war against iran. Can you imagine a situation where it would be you would be in support of a war with iran. It was after one was another war and then another war then another you know thing is another way. To solve problems and go about things open assassinations and bombing other people and we knew about it you could prove it i think we need real proof that some type of activity is actually happening where people are losing life losing land where some type of injustice is happening at the hands of iran but at this point i dont really know that thats necessarily a terrorist attack on you know innocent people you know Something Like 911 happens of course the response is this is necessary and immediate. Is war the answer to that maybe not maybe but i still think personally we should find a different solution besides war weve been to many wars a lot of people have died in doesnt seem to make the issues go away. The ron is having violence against the whole i think the country maybe can resolve his own shoes. Other countries interference i can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for world peace. But most of the venezuelan opposition of been implicated in a Corruption Scandal leaked documents appear to reveal officials from one movement of being embezzling and funds for personal use the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. Humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only on the opposition liars but they are thieves to thousands of dollars from each other. Thousands of dollars from an aid concert on the colombian border were apparently spent on hotels prostitutes and luxury goods spite of quite as party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid aunties for i guess the of reports. Sex drugs and rocknroll arent something youd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly that seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and barris that what theyve uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe getting supplies into them to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly selfproclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. To the armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with families some of the small children they skeptical on beer they were put in hotels and by mid march it were living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current Living Conditions we do not know. How could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government to hotels is all who and why do those representatives had to pay for except they didnt according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do all of this a month ago. When we couldnt allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans thats why as soon as we had the information about the Ongoing Investigation we decided to send it straight to every impartial of dorothy. The people who did this bear in mind were appointed by why do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already Public Knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesnt cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions. Yes its a huge drug corruption poor to divert money that we could use fall Sick Children instead of being spent on food medicine that has been used to pay for alcohol prostitutes expensive Shopping Trips and Luxury Hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze and live a concert that Richard Branson blair along with others in the us pro chant of february 22nd 23rd is a complete failure of plan why those forces inside of bennett and columbia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury staying in 5. 00 star hotels and therefore theyre really showing what theyre about its about wanting to power for personal enrichment the Corruption Scandal is just one small part of what the u. S. Is engaging in in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of venice well its hundreds of millions its chance of billions of dollars that the u. S. Is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people. The president of georgia researching russians to continue visiting a country with tbilisi insisting its safe for tourists and foreign journalists thats up to moscow temporarily banned direct flights to and from georgia Russias Foreign Ministry alleges that georges brother glow position is exploiting the visit of a russian delegation to mount protests 240. 00 people have been injured in the demonstrations including a Police Offices and a producer at arties ruptly agency. It was. Such. That. 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. Protests erupted after a russian m. P. Said the governor of sutton the chair of the Georgian Parliament speaker this happened during the opening session of a multilateral Parliamentary Assembly meant to promote orthodox christianity the georgian opposition prevented people from taking to the podium afterwards we talked to who told us radicals are attempting to disrupt already complicated russian georgia relations. But when you only see it as a president of the assembly i have the right to take this seat in any country where the Assembly Session is held in this case the place was offered by the georgian side the session was invaded by radicals who shouted threats to our lives we tried to continue but more radical activists showed up with cameras and posters with anti russian and insulting slogans we decided to finish the session in the hotel nearby radicals tried to storm the hotel they attacked members of parliament including me when we tried to leave i believe all of this is the races styria in the wake of protests to take power. Early the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happened saying the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin she could short a visit to valorise to return home due to the antigovernment demonstrations and the kremlin responded to the acts ations ressa phobic provocation thats how moscow described the 2 days of large scale rallies in the georgian capital. Protesters are now demanding the government resign a new rallies being held right now in the countrys capital tbilisi so far its been proceeding without incident we spoke to former acting president of georgia you know. That the government has been fermenting and the russian sentiment. The russian to our generations are really very difficult and sensitive issue for you against a side and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m. P. In the chair 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 incompetent is the government and its absolutely sure for me that the government did nothing poorly implemented off rushing toward your relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction 2 the political parties. Themselves as a pro western and that right now 2 years they see. How to say sincere playing opposite 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 east and shouldnt be absent and be irresponsible this is the government and stupidity of this government ok for you after this short break. Sometimes shows were like a honeypot. Everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the reliability of russia but they thought that everyone was great over there russian businessmen wanted to do business in the west because they feared some could take everything away from them in russia its now its the opposite dave business is outside of russia was snatched less has frozen the old log now the student whine about. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. My objection to breaks it is not that i like to hear you but it without the mollifying influence of the e. U. The brits are going to be exposed face on head on to people like Boris Johnson and jacob smog who are who are the certifiably insane. Welcome back in a rerun of istanbuls mio rule election the opposition candidates in among blue has once again claimed victory the folk was widely seen as a political test for turkeys president. And his party room was ordered by the government after it claimed that the munchie lection was rigged the vote back then also so the opposition candidate defeat his ruling party rival. The opposition candidate. Is going to be the citys 1st bear for 25 years who is not from president or ones party and mostly campaigned on urban poverty after turkey slid into recession as opponents in early yields remembers promise to build on the government simple structure and Services Improvements in the city in a marvelous 1st victory was an old in may after claims some officials overseeing the vote were not Civil Servants as required by law opposition parties claimed that decision was politically motivated and not legally justified. This is not just an election for the istanbul great municipality at the same time it is the day it is a vote to repair the unlawful process the nation has experienced in this democratic process. And im joined now by political analyst use of air him who works for t. R. T. World. As i understand that this mandate that everyone had back in the ninetys was whoever wins istanbul wins turkey do you think that formula still applies today. Well you have to remember the oil makeup of turkey is great the changed and the importance of many yet and it will be in provinces. Its different now than it was when he says make that statement so yes this temple still very important to city at 1516 no it was cattle bigger population than most European Countries budget that rivals European Countries but when you look at turkish politics right now president going as though the most popular figure in turkish politics is a party still the Number One Party but lets not discount how important tonight was but the major opposition leaders. Like that said is there will isnt court and its not everything was the most popular but there is a new rising star as well. What impact is that going to be from an opposition victory all the countries are home. Well the opposition victory is very important theyve got some momentum right now but there is so poor for years the next general election. Law can happen in turkish politics in 4 years and thats thats a lifetime and at the politics so theyre going to build on this momentum. This local success can translate International Success now for the other party its back to the drawing board learn some lessons the peoples will the people spoke tonight in the peoples will is about contest the nation in the democracy which is turkey and president on these to take some lessons im sure the partys going to try to reinvigorate themselves theres been complacency over the last couple of years amongst the some of the candidates as theyre depending on president ad wants popularity so the party needs to restructure the newer pieces they need a newer agenda most importantly they need to reach out to the new young voters were seeing c. H. B. Very popular amongst the Younger Voters and this is there in that party needs improving and also encouraged but that was very very important and i. The seeds he was able to mobilize a kurdish vote they were able to get them to the ballot the other party was not able to get the kurdish vote for the ball so these were definite determining factors these swing votes were determining factors and that Going Forward now like you said both parties need to see what they won and lost and i see he has won a lot tonight how are they going to translate that success and momentum remains to be seen for our party its back to the drawing board they have to learn the lessons from the next last so it doesnt happen in the future and i suspect the opposition will will try and playing this is the beginning of the end that will say that you know his control over his dominance is now slipping would you interpret it that far or is this more of a blip. By neither i wouldnt say its a blip i would say that add on to our slipping like i said hes the most hes the most popular politician in turkey by paul now when we look at this is this a watershed moment while depends on how you read it we have to realize this is a local election and yet so it is a local option if it was a good candidate choice by the c. H. P. They were able to read the they were able to read the tory really well and they picked a good candidate so were Going Forward i mean theres just so many variables to consider in this next 4 years Going Forward now president add one he lost a ruling which will be in 2015 but in the next election he came back real strong and won the majority again so hed learned his lesson in 2000. Whats going to happen in 2023 that remains to be seen now. Like i said 4 years is really long in turkish politics so much really could happen and to exaggerate this victory beyond the local election is just not right because when you look at everything surrounding this election the close margin weve really wrong call and then this polarized campaign kerry. Took on like this like of its own it is them who is the most important city but my case that this is a local election in National Politics and general elections are totally totally different monsour in turkey and its an area where the president i want excels the most because he is a direct candidate is a president ial candidate and his ministers are very experienced people going and so were going to have to see how this each piece is going to be able surrounds their top level cabarets going into a general election in the future and will they be able with up a strong fight against present out want to be. You said could speak to appreciate you providing some context for this story i guess is our use of air and political analyst at t r t well thank you. On to the news now the russian president on your q. And a session received more than 2000000 questions from the public but if it is spend some 4 hours on thursday answering more than 80 questions on various subjects including International Issues you can watch the full session online for now though here are some of the key points. Is that if the american side shows interest we are always ready for dialogue but we see what is happening in us domestic politics the president will always look back on the race hes in right now some of the american establishment are speculating about our countrys relationship trying to find problems and telling lies if we. Are going to use the mirrors zelinsky went to paris and said he would not talk to the separatists the representatives of these unrecognized republics how will they resolve this issue of modern history doesnt provide a single example of a conflict which was resolved without direct dialogue between the sides we need political will from kiev. And we did everything weve seen presented as evidence that russia is responsible for everything doesnt suit us we think it is insufficient evidence it doesnt say anything weve presented our version of events but unfortunately no one wants to hear it until there is a proper dialogue here we wont find any answers to the questions about the plane crash in the deaths of the people on board which remain open it this is a tragedy and we mourn its victims such tragedies are unacceptable. I think that we still existing with the saving this is r. T. International updates coming your way in half an hour. When lawmakers manufacture consent to stick to the public will. When the ruling classes protect themselves. With the crime and. Live to be the one percent. Who ignore middle of the room to. Believe. The real news is real. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy for him to let it be an arms race is off and spearing Dramatic Development only mostly im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. All. Alone welcome to worlds apart taking somebody for a ride has long been a synonym of unfair treatment but the growth of blah blah car is calling that into question the Ride Sharing Service has long shall be on its a difference turning on a development and john they can all make good but this car ownership is increasingly losing its appeal around the world whats a half of the pot for all the discount that im now joined by a nickel. Go founder and c. E. O. Of blah blah carr mr preston its good to talk to you thank you very much for terror thanks for having me now when i read your interviews for the western as opposed to lets say Russian Media im always struck by how differently your portray your service because in europe you put a lot of emphasis on Environmental Concerns cutting the c o 2 imprint this social value but in russia its all about personal benefit and the chip in this of the ride other russians really so much more selfcentered than the rest of the europeans yeah i mean its an interesting question i think its more like an evolution of the communication we have with the community i dont think its that polarized in your dog on your body environment we all need talk about it going to be beneath it if you could all the at the deicing in communication we do in france and germany does very much around saving money its always the same its always about saving money making friends and social benefits and meeting people because we connect people that do not have mentors always in the environment what we found is that the 1st 3 years tend to be economic and social and then and especially youre right now in europe there is a lot more awareness around the environment for the young generation i think its less true and less right now in russia as it is just a matter of time so i think its more like a timing of communication than anything but overall again the way you portray it is very polarized its just a continuum of belief around or putting i think there is much more emphasis on this individual freedom. 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Deploying the same vision and then adapting to local needs and local specific cities in say the year and then we is an empty car see the economics of an empty bus see it including environmental economics is very different from an empty car see it as you try to integrate more and more modes of transportation into into a platform im going to privilege environmentally friendly ones. I think all of it is pretty much the