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And nato future air power turkeys already bought for and wants another 116 but the u. S. Believes russia may use the s 400 system to connect Sensitive Data about the f. 35. Present on time says raise aid that deporting undocumented immigrants will begin in 10 u. S. Cities this weekend his coming under attack renewed attack or varies immigration policies with some democrats accusing him of cruelty because of the conditions in Detention Centers on the border mike hanna reports from washington. The trumpet ministration is trying to change the narrative of 2 weeks of negative attention Vice President mike pence toured a migrant detention facility along the Us Mexico Border different from what we hear from many of the critics. I couldnt be more impressed with the compassionate work that our cause and for Border Protection to doing here at this facility on capitol hill the House Oversight Committee Heard a different version of conditions inside the centers and what was worst about this mr chairman was the fact that there were American Flags hanging all over these facilities that children being separated from their parents in front of an American Flag that women were being called these names under an American Flag we cannot allow for this as we have seen this current strategy unfold intentional in cruelly created by the Top Administration does and sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in america in our America President trump has dismissed the claims of mistreatment of their phony sources that even after they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear it considered the details of maltreatment as fully substantiated a report considered by the committee was based on data provided by President Trumps own Administration Officials under subpoena among the facts that they confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months. The house efforts to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the Judiciary Committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administrations 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law my kind of aljazeera washington the tunisian red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekends migrant ship disaster has risen to 80 only 3 of the 86 passengers on board are known to have survived after the boat capsized off the coast of tunisia they were taken to a Migrant Center in this for treatment the agency says the death toll could rise further. Police in paris have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the citys pantheon mausoleum the demonstrators who have identified themselves as a black vests barricaded themselves inside the building for a number of hours videos on facebook demanding their residency papers be normalised and a meeting with the french Prime Minister. Attash butler has more from paris. Where hundreds of Asylum Seekers occupied the policy on central paris just after lunch time a local time here in paris is an Historic Building in the heart of the french capital that is where famous french women and men are buried its a symbol of the French Republic not symbolism has not been lost on those who have chosen this venue for their protests now the Asylum Seekers are saying that many of them have been here for years they have the right to ask for asylum they have papers showing that the french state approves that the sign of request but what they are saying is that they havent had those papers changed into the sort of papers and permits to the allow them to work legally in this country therefore many of them are working illegally many of them do not have access to housing and theyre saying thats simply unfair and what they are demanding is to see the Prime Minister it was felipe they want to have the legal right to stay in front they say it is right there was a promise to says im some of them have been here for a decade without the white papers. Freedom is to have our papers to work we are here for violent trouble here for our right to lose working illegally to slavery. So why did it work so that shameful to see this in front of the country of human rights. Thats why were demanding papers for everyone 2018 the french government passed a new Immigration Law perfect president came out on marco said it was all about cracking down on illegal immigration but do you think the situation for people applying for asylum here disagree. Ahead on aljazeera well look at why former rebel fighters in colombia asked to transition back to. Hello there we have seen some very heavy rain for the last several days across much of central and Southern China still a blanket of cloud on the satellite weve had evacuations to nearly 80000 people across the southern regions and the rain is going to continue to full out wont quite make it to you in hong kong on saturday that you see and dry conditions 36 in taipei again with dry conditions for you should say dry on sunday elsewhere the rain continuing to push towards the north and the east 27. 00 in shanghai with some heavy rain at times so whole leading to all flooding concerns and Southeast Asia weve got usual showers and thunderstorms popping up generally in the afternoon hours south a little of the cloud and rain across the Central Regions out tools the west not as bad into southern as its sumatra 32 in jakarta and a sunny skies really through much of south of me and sunday will rain against that also kael a wet day on sunday with a high there of 32 india the rains focusing this monsoon rains on the north east and in particular on tools bangladesh you can see these bright white. And that so seeing those heavy downpours of monsoon rains that will continue on saturday and on into sunday and you can see this line here very dark shading and of course once again this could well lead to some very heavy localized flooding. Was sponsored by the town and. When thrown in society open top display thought of m p bridge is the european problem but its not accountable and its impossible for the people to get in school or link up are people trying to take it for their needs at the forefront of Strong Demand our song werman youre getting the growth projection isnt it its called because of all those of europes forbidden colony episode 2 on aljazeera. Youre watching live from doha a reminder of our top stories the u. S. House of representatives has voted to prohibit the sale of some munitions to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates for one year these weapons are the ones being used in the war in yemen the conflict has left styles instead millions facing famine police in gibraltar have released all 4 crewmembers of any rainy an oil tanker seized last week the ship was detained by British Forces on suspicion of taking oil to syria in breach of e. U. Sanctions all 4 were released on bail without charge and turkey has received its 1st shipment of the russian s. 400. 00 Missile Defense system the controversial deal has angered the u. S. With washington threatening to impose retaliatory sanctions. A u. S. President donald trump has lost another member of his cabinet with the resignation of labor secretary alex acosta has faced fierce criticism over a secret deal he negotiated a decade ago with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein who was accused of sexually abusing underage girls radical hain has a story from washington. And i want to thank alex because he was a great great secretary and with that another cabinet secretary announces his resignation secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta has been facing intense criticism for giving a very lenient deal to an accused child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 when a customer was a u. S. Attorney both he and the president tried to downplay the case cabinet. Are temporarily right. It would be selfish for me to stay in this day and then you talking about a case of bloggers all rather than about a week on me right now made a deal that people be with them and 12 years later theyre not happy with it go up to figure all of that out of the bag. Did a fantastic secretary of labor a cost is just the latest to go this president has had more turnover than any other president in modern history looking at his original cabinet hes replaced the secretaries of Defense Health and Human Services Homeland Security interior the attorney general at the Justice Department the secretary of state the Veterans Affairs the Environmental Protection agency the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and now the labor secretary most left due to scandal some facing allegations of corruption but political analyst Bill Schneider says it wont impact the president support his base even if he doesnt deliver what he promises to his base they see him as fighting for them and getting rid of people that are in his way and they think thats probably a smart way to govern and now familiar pattern those close to the president face scandal stepped down and are replaced and the president continues on knowing so far no amount of controversy has hurt him with his core supporters pedicle hain aljazeera washington. To south africa now where soldiers will be deployed in cape town to help police fired a surge in gun related violence in med is the Defense Ministry says theyll be there for at least 3 months but some locals say the military cant fix economic reasons behind the families of miller as well from cape town. Were in the precinct of the Manenberg Police Station Police have told us that it would be better for us to full within the Police Station rather than out in the street because its not safe its been 24 hours since the minister of police announced that the National Defense force would be deployed to areas of the cape flats the army is going to target at least 10 areas here that are infested by gangs where theres a high crime rates especially murders and this is whats led to this decision by government the minister of police says things are out of hand and this deployment is expected to stabilize the situation here so that police can do their jobs people here say that they live in fear and even as that announcement came from the minister of police this evening weve continued to hear gunshots people here telling us that its likely Gang Violence and perhaps a lot of that coming ahead of this Army Deployment people here are scared they say that they have difficulty sending their children to School People often keep indoors because the streets are unsafe we have seen homes that are riddled by bullets people here say that this deployment by the army is a Long Time Coming out of a normal day would be a day with these no violence that would be a normal day everybody is trying to figure out why you sit quiet what is happening the extent to which going to. Put people have become desensitized to these a lot of untouched within the community theres a lot of trauma also within the community because of the history of violence in in the the decision by the government to deploy the army to the streets of the cape flats has both its supporters and critics many are worried that policing in this area will be militarized theyre also concerned that soldiers dont have the training to deal with survey. Millions but many here are also supports of they say theres no other way to deal with the levels of Gang Violence they also accuse the police of being corrupt and one other concern is that police are under resourced just to give you an idea in affluent suburbs in cape town there are about 135 people to every one Police Officer here on the cape flats theres about one Police Officer to about 721 Citizens Police simply current keep up and the government is hoping that this deployment of the army will stabilize the situation and that people here wont live in fear. At least 10 people have been killed during an attack on a hotel in the somali port city of kiss my own fighting is still underway at the hotel where local elders and politicians have been discussing an Upcoming Regional Election a Journalist Group says 2 reporters are among the dead the armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Leaders from 8 west african countries have agreed to switch to a single regional currency called the echo that means a former french colonies will give up their use of the c. F. A. Franc its part of a plan to strengthen regional ties and boost trade. U. S. Regulators have approved a roughly 5000000000. 00 settlement with facebook over its handling of user data according to the wall street journal the federal trade commission has been investigating allegations a social media giant inappropriately shared the information of 87000000. 00 users with the British Political Consulting Firm Cambridge Analytic and a settlement would be the largest civil penalty ever paid to the f. T. C. To colombia now where the president has asked the u. N. To keep supervising its fine job Peace Agreement with fox rebels the 2016 accord ended the worlds longest running Armed Conflict it included land reforms and programs to bring fighters back to civilian life but as. A force from the coca region in southwestern colombia the reforms have mostly stalled. Heartbroken and helpless relatives of former 5 gravel. Cry over his coffin. The 41 years old which july 9th as he went to work at his fledgling pineapple field. Pieces casillas our lives he believes in this process of serenity is hard to give himself to peace now close to call his life his laughter his dream to see his children progress. Is the 9 x. Combatants from this demobilization camp in southwest colombia to be killed one of more than 140. 00 nationwide since surrendering their weapons 2 years ago former combatants were promised security guarantees access to land and support for productive process is but most have only received a monthly allowance which is set to expire in august. Of the more than 200 former combatants and their families that built the mobilization camp only 27 remain the rest left in search of Work Opportunities or fleeing serious death threats. Some former fighters set up agricultural comparatives with the help of international n. G. O. S and farmers associations catulus worked in this field planting pumpkins and beans among other crops theyve started the fish farm and raise pigs but its coworkers say they feel powerless and fearful. This is very difficult news for us our companion was coming with seeds the way the government is failing to fulfill the peace deal is desperate we have no financial or political stability. Current colombian president a critic of the accord promised to help former fighters while insisting on changing parts of the deal he announced new security measures for them. After receiving threats former local far commander cutlass and tanya costa was given a bodyguard in an armored car but still had to leave the village and im going to one thats out of my luck that there is a part of Colombian Society that still cant accept that the country is moving towards reconciliation and that we need to take advantage of this opportunity. Bringing thousands of fighters out of the jungle has no doubt been a success by securing peace remains a work in progress 1500 former fighters have joined criminal gangs but most say theyve laid down their weapons for a good plain thing seeds of hope that peace can hold allison that im. Kouka region colombia. Now again im fully back to bill with the headlines on aljazeera the u. S. House of representatives has voted to prohibit the sale of some munitions to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates for one year these weapons are the ones being used in the war in yemen the amendment was put forward by House Democrats Tom Malinowski this war has caused the worlds worst humanitarian crisis more than 200000 civilians have been killed or died of starvation while the who tease are to blame for much of this saudi and u. A. E. Airstrikes are responsible for 2 thirds of yemeni civilian casualties there was a strike on a funeral more than 150. 00 civilians killed a strike on a school bus that killed 40 kids on a save the Children Hospital on a wedding these were not mistakes these were deliberate and precise attacks and everybody in yemen knows that the bombs causing the suffering are made in the United States. Police in gibraltar have released all 4 crew members of an Iranian Oil Tanker seize last week the ship was detained by British Forces on suspicion of taking on oil to syria in breach of e. U. Sanctions all 4 were released on bail without charge turkey has received this for a shipment of the russian s 400. 00 Missile Defense system the controversial deal has angered the United States with washington threatening to impose retaliatory sanctions the u. S. Aber secretary is stepping down over his role in striking a pedia with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alex acosta had to face his criticism over the 2008 deal with some saying the punishment was too lenient and just after he announced the news about alex acosta President Donald Trump went on to say that immigrate immigrant deportations will begin in 10 u. S. Cities this weekend this week will target people whove received final orders to leave the country including families and release in paris every move hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the citys pantheon mostly empty the demonstrators who have been identifying themselves as the black press barricaded themselves inside the building for a number of hours those are the headlines inside story is next stay with us. Iran accuses britain of being a servant of the United States as it demands a return of a seized on oil tanker and the u. K. Is considering boosting its military presence after a Close Encounter in the gulf with tensions rising by the day whats the likelihood of a conflict this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Martin Dennis now the United States the u. K. And iran they all agree on one thing they dont want war but the situation is becoming dangerous as the u. S. Turns the screw further on irans already faltering economy and britain finds itself in an awkward position on the one hand its working with europe to try to save the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal which the u. S. Has abandoned on the other britain needs to maintain close ties with washington as it seeks to leave the European Union its been suggested that the seizure of the rainy and oil tanker off gibraltar last week was done at the behest of the United States and thats infuriated iran with the foreign minister demanding britain return the ship or face what he called consequences. European union sanctions are meant to stop europe from buying syrias oil not about another country selling oil to syria so this is a very childish with dickless excuse why the british they should officially say west servants of america and act on behalf of America America has returned the paper by insulting their ambassador and the Prime Minister but gibraltars chief minister says there was no foreign interference. Its all rather decisions in respect of this matter what taken as a direct result only of the government of gibraltar have a reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel was acting in breach of established sanctions against syria there has been no political requested any time from any government but the travolta government should act on not act on one basis or another so we have to remember of course a gibraltar is a british territory and theres been incremental ratcheting up of tension within the past week in the gulf British Royal marines seize that Iranian Oil Tanker off the coast of gibraltar as weve mentioned because of the suspicion of it violating sanctions against syria a former commander of irans revolutionary guard suggested a british vessel should be taken in retaliation on tuesday the u. K. Raised the threat to british shipping in the gulf to its highest level and the following day a u. K. Warship says it stopped Iranian Military boats from impeding a british or tanker in the strait of hormuz iran though denies this incident ever happened its. Time to introduce our guest now on skype in london we have a nice a best siri to breezy who is Research Fellow at russi thats the role United Services institute in tehran we have Mohammad Marandi head of American Studies Department at the university of tehran also in london we have Phil Dyer Cohen hes managing director of dryad global thats a Maritime Security Risk Management Company Welcome to you warm phil can i start with you and just ask you to give us a very general. Assessment of what the Maritime Security situation in the gulf currently is with we understand a british the british sending another warship to the region and ratcheting up its security alert level. So the increase in the security level that was announced yesterday for british interest vessels is is as you say the highest level security that can be applied to a vessel what affectively means is that you are stripping the movement of personal on the vessel and on and off the vessel also along with the industry best management practice thats the b. M. P. 5 along with that with which might imply physical security measures what youre doing is youre providing the the Biggest Barriers to boarding allowing people to interfere with your vessel but in essence thats as far as it goes so in terms of the security raised in the area and the british ability to influence that what we had to go on on tuesday was effectively what the iranians have been doing for quite some time now and we have to put this into context our clients have been reporting this of activity for many years now where the iranian guard operating their vessels will try and steer vessels away from their course and 20 courage them into areas where they have more direct influence i reign in total waters where they can perhaps take steps further and pursue their own agenda what would that be i mean whats your understanding from what youre hearing from your clients your customers in the region what is the objective what are the these arabians seeking to achieve so that her recent activity that we talked with that weve seen here and this the allegedly to place 2 days ago with the british vessel now remember the british vessel the thing to know that is that it might be under a red n sign which comes under the sort of british flags of convenience but actually that vessel has many interested parties in it so it there were e. U. Interests there were chinese interests there were dutch interests of the chinese interests so most vessels that pass through those areas have interests from many nations unlike the grace one which was a single currency or cargo which was a rainy and cargo and it was headed towards syria as interfering is as their end would say with that vessel is does. Have the same impact all right lets go to mohammed now and ill see what he thinks is the scenario in the gulf right now is it a case of of this u. S. Campaign of maximum pressure not allowing iran to export one drop of its oil and therefore iran saying well that its going to its going to obstruct the whole industry for the rest of the world as well. No i dont think that this particular incident really happened and while there are cases where the iranian navy. May take action against particular ships or behave in a particular manner its usually in a risk in response to what the saudis or their moralities or the americans do to iranian ships so this is something thats been happening for a long time but in this particular case if the iranians had decided to take an oil tanker they would have taken it and then the british cannot stop the iranians this is after all the persian gulf the iranians so many years on is it just a islands so is it just a matter of nuisance value then the iranian navy wanting to cause a bit of a headache and to create a bit of a problem for people then in the gulf. No i was they said this is something that the different sides do but on this particular occasion i think probably Nothing Happened in what really happened was that the americans immediately after they want to be they called for this stablish ment of a Naval Task Force that would be obviously hostile towards iran and work alongside the iranian coast this socalled incident happened and we had different. War it was reported in different ways by the americans the americans initially said there were 5 boats the british sense that there were 3 boats in the americans who said there were 5 points they were there were military officials so even the story itself it was inconsistent the iranians said Nothing Happened as i said if the iranians wanted to take both theres nothing that the british could have done the run ins have a very strong presence in the persian gulf and so i think that its basically the british appeasing the americans and even the oil tanker not not that the iranians may not take a ship later on but when they do seek a ship they will take it in that will probably be in retaliation to the fact that the british hijacked an iranian ship and the iranian ship was taken at the behest of the americans although the prata government says otherwise but apparently the Spanish Foreign minister didnt receive the memo he said specifically that the americans asked for this shia be taken over right now coming to you and he say in london i suppose a starting point needs to be the seizure of this Iranian Oil Tanker in the strait of gibraltar obviously gibraltar being a british territory and the sequence of events starting from that point to where we are now do you think that it was a calculated. Action taken by british authorities to seize this ship even though it was apparently in contravention of sanctions against syria but was it a calculated action taken by the British Government which you think. I think obviously at the moment the stakes are really high for book side to saw what we are seeing is still was describing some additional for instance is that where already berea taken plays an incident where already taken place but that are placed in a very different context in which the stakes are higher and did 2 sides are taking a much stronger position we are seeing especially in order to foster nuns and translation from a stronger rhetoric or to stronger actions in practice both from the iranian side and european side so i dont know to specific os these instance on whether it was in retaliation for an rainy and for instance reprising or their Nuclear Activities or whether it was a decision from the u. K. To try to basically take a stance which is closer to new us but we are seeing and growing tendency by both sides to or toughening up their rhetoric but also to take harsher measures which were not taken before and staying with you and he said because the u. K. Is finding itself isnt it as mohamed has pointed out finding itself in a very awkward position its about to leave the European Union we expect of therefore is vulnerable as he put it all in even more greater need if you like of of u. S. Patronage and certainly in the form of a of a big fat trade deal so theyre prepared to do what it takes to keep that relationship going would you agree with that. Just to or some extent i think the expectation was the same would regard to the nuclear deal when for instance that their us president and decided 1st to decertify the us and then to withdraw the us from didnt occur there was the expectation that the u. K. Might break ranks with the rest of the e. U. And the position itself closer to the u. S. But that did not happen we have seen actually a closing out of the rancid between the u. K. And under the tree france and germany in particular so it really depends on the front which we are talking about i think on the knocker issue as correctly youre already at the beginning the u. K. Has been still 19 in its position. Of defending the new ground by funding up until recently i answered of iran with its nuclear obligation and doing everything it could really to look. For didion to survive right in the region are front however a story in the u. K. Has taken a step closer push it was german to the us and sort of this is what we are seeing at the moment right phil coming back to the situation on the ground all i should say on the war so i really so the situation is very tense indeed weve got the highest level of alert when it comes to british Maritime Forces have you ever seen a situation as tense as this before in your experience and obviously many people will be thinking back to the late 1980 s. And what was known as the tonka war. I mean historically these these events have occurred or see through time the that we mustnt forget that it seems like ages ago now but you know 2007 the incident with the h. M. S. Cornwall where 15 members of the wrong navy were arrested by the iranian guards with small boats you know that incident occurred and that led to a rise in tensions and increase in security levels but that you know it was only 2007 but yet that seems like a long time ago and i think we do need to think its very interesting timing from the british to take the grace from the iranian tanker to rest it off gibraltar because they would have known that that would have led to consequences that were were starting to see here and also the the american attempt to start creating a coalition to support vessels going through the straits of hormuz weve seen this sort of thing before in fact we see it going on currently but in a different environment in the gulf of aden where weve got 4 fatalities or are there weve got a convoy escorts that go through the gulf of aden which was set up in against piracy threat at the time and thats still going on although the piracy is for as diminished but the biggest difference is a potential for escalation in that environment is so much less than is in the gulf of a moves right so any coalition that is built has to go into account now mohamed given given this kind of exceedingly tense environment i would imagine theres very little chance for dialogue but how much hope is there in tehran being invested in the europeans and their and their ability to come up with this alternative system instead this is the way its being it is what its being called to to try to mitigate if you like the effects of these harsh american sanctions. Well we have to keep in mind that the only side that has been abiding by the nuclear deal over the last 14 months is iran and this is something that the western media and the western think tanks really rarely say there are people who point this out but its its not really known by the western public that iran has been faithfully abiding by the deal and even now that its beginning to reduce its commitments its only doing so to force the europeans to take a stand because the europeans have all sorts of commitments they have been violating all of them because of bullying from washington and so the iranians are saying look we cannot continue like this iranian public will not accept it the iranian public is becoming increasingly frustrated and they expect the government to take action and so the government is becoming more forceful in its attitude in its position towards the i dont im not very optimistic about the e. U. But i do think that its in the interests of the you to change its policy into stand up to the United States it has an economy that by some calculations is larger than the United States and it has of the population thats larger than the United States and the russians and the chinese are resisting the United States so theres no reason why the e. U. Especially in coordination with the russians and the chinese cannot do a lot more than what its doing now but ultimately if the u. Doesnt take a stance then we may move towards greater escalation in that thats what the americans are pushing for when trump speaks about obliterating iran he said that a number of times already which is basically a threat of holocausts hes hes threatening iran with nuclear strikes but we dont see any european leader or any major media outlet showing shock or condemning such language on the other hand he is trump himself says that hes carrying out Economic Warfare and hes building other countries not to do trade with iran you cannot purchase medicine through the Banking Sector and iran and right now there are examples of people whove gone without their. Medicine. For cancer because its so expensive they dont want their family to live in destitute so the choose to die as a result this is a policy that the europeans in their right are pursuing these say so mohammed is suggesting that the europeans could actually do a great deal more in terms of of helping irans economy out of this this tight squeeze its been placed upon it by the American Campaign do you think the europeans do have that latitude and if so if they do have it or theyre not actually exercising it whats holding them back. Look i think they mania and have rightfully expectation that the europeans would do more in terms of their way down to describe it compensate for the u. S. Would draw from in america this was a very much expectation since last year and since may 2018 and it tore across from the iranian side where very much clearer seems than meaning the connection to the financial global system and a continuation of its ability to export oil. In stocks mckinneys them obviously europeans invested very much on to Financial Connections side however and that is very limited its also 1st of all use not really ongoing at the moment despite operationalization and its very limited on the humanitarian goods armley and we have seen a continuation of irans inability to or south its all oil to the priest actions level so its clear that they are right and expectation have not met in terms of the european cup abilities obviously what we have seen so far has been very limited compared to day rate and expectation but has also been unprecedented compare to easter a story to. Stand up to us in terms of institutionalizing our financial mckinneys and and introducing a blocking regulation and so on and support if we were talking back in late 2017 there was no expectation whatsoever that this was going to happen obviously much more could be done but i think it requires time and time is really not anyones friend and a moment right mohamed so you took a little bit earlier about the possibility of iran escalating if you like its noncompliance with the terms of the what remains of the day c. P. O. A is it wrong prepared to go so far as to render it completely obsolete tear. It up and walk away is iran prepared for that yes i think that iran ultimately is willing to do that because if the europeans do not take steps to abide by their commitments then there is no reason for iran to say the but the reason why the iranians are gradually reducing their commitments is to give the europeans an opportunity to do something i mean what the europeans have done so far as is really nothing instax maybe a political statement but it is it is an empty vessel it doesnt do anything there has to be money in it European Companies are afraid to Purchase Iranian Oil well if theyre afraid that europe the european governments can purchase oil are they that afraid of the United States the the the right now the chinese are purchasing iranian oil increasingly as we speak the russians are cooperating with you ron so if the iranians simply dont buy it that the europeans cant do anything and if they really cant do anything in the europeans should not be sitting at the negotiating table they should step aside because theyre not of significance but the iranians i think what is even more important is that the iranians are more than prepared to defend themselves and this escalation that the americans are pursuing is very dangerous this is 1988 where the americans can down an iranian airliner killing 200. 00 in 1000. 00 people and nothing happens this is an iran today which yeah shoots down a 200000000. 00 american drone with a 20000. 00 iranian made draw right iran has underground installations from the iraqi border alongside the persian gulf to the strait of hormuz to pakistan with tens of thousands of precision guided missiles and iran has allies across the region and they in 1980 right was isolated and surrounded ok a very different time today phil coming back to you im just wondering a little bit more about the situation in the gulf itself how how easy would it be if you like would it be for there to be. An intent. Tional ratcheting up of of tensions which could lead to direct conflict im particularly referring to britain at the moment because thats where our focus is today how likely is it that it could just unintentionally spiral out of control i think youve hit the nail on the head there with the unintentional side of it i think everyones aware of the implicit dangers of putting military assets into an area such as this i mean one of the biggest dangers is the unintentional event that leads on to escalation don trump has been pushing for the u. S. To lead a coalition but doesnt want to be doing on their own so trying to build a coalition because as you rightly point out most of the oil that goes through there and our customers are the ones who are transporting this oil through the straits most of that oil is going out to china and japan india america will be a net exporter of energy by next year so actually its requirements to keep the lanes open its a purely for the for the flow of oil for example is much less than other nations hence they need to build a coalition because they dont want to pay for it and that suits trumps agenda you know so hes saying that if i see america 1st and able to. Build the coalition but the things coalitions and this goes right back to your point is that when you build a coalition you all the operators will operate under their own National Rules of engagement and their ways of operating when youve got that situation you could have situations develop where an event occurs that is not necessarily supported or would be followed in the same way by another nation so coalitions in that sense in this tinderbox environment they will be thinking very carefully about committing to this area going back to your point about the british. Nope sorry go no please please finish but be quick if you will because we are running out of time for please nova now those are so so the brits the british involvement in the area because we have british interests in the area the british will of course do what they can but in terms of the effectiveness of all those vessels going through the air it is an enormous challenge to have a full policing effective policing effort to prevent things like this happening if youve got arms in an area like this theres always a scale ation potential right and any say looking at the british the british position right now it seems as though theyre increasingly in this all is a vise like situation how how desirable or otherwise is it for the u. K. To be seen to be viewed by others as a proxy for the United States and i have to ask you to be brief please i think. The u. K. Is really willing to be somewhere between the e. U. And the us and development i dont even want to be perceived as a proxy after us i dont think it wants to fully ally in or to the us policy on iran because there is so much disagreement internationally to worse the us policy on iran about the closer detentions gets between the us and iran did more to provoke ation from the iranians are ignored it measures taken by the iranian side to which the u. K. Needs to respond the more likely it is that the u. K. Was shift towards the us thank you all very much indeed a nice a best theory to brissie Mohammad Marandi and feel dark and thank you all very much indeed really interesting conversation and as ever thank you for watching the program you can see it again anytime you like by going to the web site aljazeera dot com if you want to continue with this conversation go to our Facebook Page facebook dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a. J. 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Airstrikes are responsible for 2 thirds of yemeni civilian casualties there was a strike on a funeral more than 150 civilians killed a strike on a school bus that killed 40 kids on a save the Children Hospital on a wedding these were not mistakes these were deliberate and precise attacks and everybody in yemen knows that the bombs causing this suffering are made in the United States there is given and is under has more now from washington. The u. S. Would halt any sort of munitions being sold to saudi arabia or the u. A. E. For one year these munitions that are used in the war on yemen and that it would be munitions that are air to ground munitions so its not necessarily everything it does not necessarily mean stopping all arms sales to saudi arabia that is not what it means but this is still very significant because it did pass the house of representatives on friday the vote was 236 in favor of this amendment 182 against it it mostly went along party lines with democrats voting for it mostly republicans voting against it however 5 republicans did vote yes for this amendment as well this is just one of several different amendments that were put forth on friday for the general National Defense authorization bill which is the bill thats a very normal thing thats basically the u. S. Government deciding how much money theyre going to give to the defense the pentagon every year the house lawmakers in the house are able to offer up amendments that they want to see this was this key amendment they were just talking about here halting these munitions sales to saudi arabia as part of the same bill the house also voted to require President Donald Trump to get congressional permission before he launches any attack on iran the senates rejected a similar measure last month but will now have to negotiate with the house over its inclusion in a launch a defense bill police in gibran to have release all through 4 crewmembers of an Iranian Oil Tanker seized last week the ship was attained by British Forces on suspicion of taking oil to syria in breach of e. U. Sanctions all 4 were released on bail without charge. 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Because of the boxes of the of the m. P. s. They belong to the people who will jump at these called the European Union to account. A look you can hear us look inside. What do they do here. Nothing. I am theres a hugely important debate about the future all to European Union today and im trying to say. I mean its impossible for them to people but this is the european problem and its not accountable. Like even in croatia in the parliament you have a balcony of a dog and if people can come every day and look whats happening but you know. The closest i can get is the press room where we get to see our representatives on t. V. But then the European Parliament is unique. Normally parliaments the wise their own laws but here they can only accept or reject legislation from the unelected European Commission you know. Its one of the reasons you believe there nigel farage says british its to leave the e. U. Leave and just days after the break sit while hes relishing his. 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