Welcome everybody, its 2 30 p. M. Here in the iranian capital town, watching press tvs world news, our talk story for this uh four once president has hailed the successful launch of new satellite into orbit despite sanctions imposed by western states encrippling the Islamic Republic space program. Right, he said the launch has once again put it threats and sanctions have no effect on irans termination. To progress, he also thanked organizations and people evolved and the satellite launch while urging them to pay the way for the countrys rapid growth in space industry on wednesday division of irans Islamic Revolution guards Court Blasted off new three imaging satellite aboard a carrier dubpet or messenger. It was placed into orbit 450 kilometers above the earths surface. The irgc had successfully launched the home grown nour 1 and noor 2 satellites in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Iraqi Security Forces have arrested 14 suspects in connection with the deby fire incident a christian wedding ceremony in the northern province of neinava. The wedding hall owner and some staff are among the detainees more than 100 people were killed and scores of others injured after a blazen gulfed a packed marriage hall in the town of hamdania on tuesday night. The interior minister held a security meeting after president abdullatif frosh had called for a thorough investigation. Into the incident, meanwile people attended a morning mass for those who lost their lives, several political and religious leaders including grand ayatollah alialstani have already offered their condolences to the families of the victims. Iran also offered condolences to the Iraqi Government and nation. The Iraqi Government has declared three days of national morning. Press tvs Bagdad Bureau chief navy bas joined us earlier from baghdad with more details on the incident. There were unfortunately not the standard safety Safety Standards were not in place. The roof, so it started from the roof, start, the first started there, and then immediately it spread out to the whole, a hall and the roof collaps and then we witnessed the humanitarian catastrophe, as a result of which in a matter of minutes, more than 100 people, the statistics we have had so far, they have lost their lives, more than 100, more than 200 have been injured, sudani, the raaki Prime Minister, has ordered the interior minister and the minister of health, the. He has dispatched the two ministers there to go and uh be there on the field and oversee the treatment and also formation of Fact Finding Committee and to see to dig out the reason behind the cause of the incident. More than half the population of nagornokarabakh has flat to armenia fong a brief military operation by azerbaijan to take full control of the disputed region armenian official same. More than 65,00 people have already arrived in the uh country Ethnic Armenians of are abandoning what they see as their ancestral homeland. The exidus continues despite bakus pledge to reintegrate Ethnic Armenians. As equal citizens, earlier azerbaijans border guard announced the arrest of a former leader of the regions unrecognized government. Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week citing two deadly blast which boku blamed on local armed groups. Russia brokered a seas fire under which locals agreed to lay down their arms. Nagornokarabakh is an internationally recognized part of azerbaijan but is largely populated by Ethnic Armenians. Well the democrat. Peoples republic of korea has amended its constitution to enshrine the countrys status as Nuclear Weapon power amid heighten tensions on the korean peninsula. The north korean officials agency said the amendment was adopted as the basic law of the state, addressing the parliament, the dprks leader called for accelerated modernization of Nuclear Weapons to help the country maintain its strategic deterrents. Kim jongun also urged officials to promote solidarity with the nation standing against the us. Uh and the west hegemonic strategy. The amendment came year after the dprk turned into law the right to use Preemptive Nuclear strikes to protect itself. Kim also denounced joint military drills by the us, south korea and japan, calling them an actual threat to his country. Puong considers such drills as rehearsals for invasion of its territory. Well joining us now from mozle we have professor of Political Science said university of southeastern norway, mr. Glenn deesen, sir, welcome to the program, first of all give us your perspective on the recent um constitutional amendments uh by north korea, well i think reflects the growing tensions in the region, because north korea needs a proper deterrent, because of course two things come at the same time, one would be that the region becomes some of destabilized and more threatening uh with the north korean modernizing their Nuclear Weapons, however at the same time, north korea has reasonable security concerns, keep in mind that the us usually promotes this and pressure as anything else in terms of meeting, their security concern would be considered to be a peacement, so this only increases what north koreans consider need for proper the turnt, and the main equalizer in the security strategy. Be Nuclear Weapons, so unfortunately this is reality, and what kind of reaction are you expecting to see from the United States and its allies . Well, its limited what can be done now, again, the the main problem is that we never uh try to sit down and deescalate, so instead, likely there will be a further escalation, so the us will interpret this as being aggressive on the part of the south korean. So they will try to step up the pressure even further and that would require the north korean to respond in kind in order to step up their Nuclear Weapons program. Again, this is whats referred to as the security dilemma, that is, you have two sides seeking security, but as long as theyre doing at expense of the other security, both will begin to undermine their their own security at the end, but whats important to know, recognize as well is how does a small country like north korea uh survive when it has this. Superpower the United States who threatens it, and and ive often argued that they pursue what nixon called a mad man strategy, which means you they they seem very aggressive and difficult to predict, because if thats your opponent you will be very careful in terms of climbing the escalation ladder and trying to poke the north koreans, you dont know if youl respond rationally, and i think uh to some extent is what theyre communicating as well. Well that was glenn dening us from, thank you sir. The us has often said that it has uh, it rather is not after conflict with china yet it has acted up. Wise, especially when it comes to military sales, the us is now negotiating to supply vietnam with a large arms package, including f16 fighter jets, which could possibly be the largest arms transfer in their history. The us President Joe Biden went a 3day trip to asia recently, his trip included stops in india for the g20 summit, then vietnam to upgrade their bilateral relationship. The purpose of a. Trip was to enhance us relationship with regional countries, especially e20 format, but that is just a formal way of not saying what the two intentions of the us president were. First joe biden said that his intentions to strengn ties with chinas neighbors werent designed to contain beijing, a phrase that he has repeat again and again. He has said things like, i dont want to contain china. Were not trying to hurt china. Americas goal is getting the relationship right . I am sincere about getting the relationship right, and one of the things that is going on now is china is beginning to change some of the rules of the game. But visit to vietnam right after. The g20 summit related different message two countries signed a historic agreement to grade relations to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership. Joe biden secured deals with vietnam on semiconductors and morals. So important is vietnam for us, executives from google, intel, amcore, marvel, global foundaries, and boing, with vietnamese tech executives along with the secretary of state, anthony blincon for more deals with semiconductor. So what gives why is vietnam so important to the us . Its pretty obvious, the us wants to rival china and at the same time flict economic damage, so much for bien saying were not trying to hurt china, but the us has other plans for vietnam, which was not announced yet, well the us goal in the Indo Pacific Region is to make china face istif competition as it has called it, this involves not only military sales, but also partnering with countries in such sectors as semiconductors, aviation and technology, this way the us aims to prevent chinas Economic Advancement so that it can retain its superpower status, which many claim is already lost. After the un vietnam elevated the relationship to comprehensive strategic partnership, the reports to the us and vietnam negotiate. Major arms deal, perhaps the biggest in their history, one involved f16 fighter jets. Here are some interesting facts behind us vietnam military relationship. Since an arms embargo was lifted in 2016, us arms exports to vietnam were limited to just coast guard ships and trainer aircrafts, so from coast guard ships and trainer aircraft, tef 16 fighter jets, what gives, by the way, russia has supplied about. 50 of vietnams military arsenal, yet vietnam is just one of many countries that the us has been selling military equipment to in the asia pacific region. Here is one snapshot, ill spray aircraft to indonesia for 2 billion dollars, two billion dollars in missiles and upgrades to taiwan, 30 billion to south korea, 2 billion in attack helicopters as well as support boats to the philippines and 23. 11 billion dollars. To japan, for 105 f35, joint Strike Fighter aircraft and related equipment, no wonder china is angered. The us actions do not match its retaric when it comes to china. It is clear that it wants to militarize the region very similar to how it did with nato countries in europe, the target there being russia. The chinese spokesman ur washington to abandon his cold war mentality and to frame from provoking an arms race. China hopes that when developing bilateral relations and conducting military cooperation, relevant countries will effectively abide by debasing norms of international relations, abandony and cold war thinking, stop provoking confrontation and stimulating arms races, but that has fallen on uss deaf ears, the us has gone all out to align regional countries with it, pop bun issues like taiwan, north korea, in the disputed islands are cars that the us plays its favor to do that, but the region will soon turn into a tinder box if it hasnt already, and it would only take one spark like the taiwan issue or north korea for it to explode. The us seven republican president ial hopefuls of faced off in the second primary debate for the 2024 election leveling attacks uh at the absent Forum President donald trump. And you know who else is missing action . Donald trump is missing action. He should be on this stage tonight. He owes it to you to defend his record where they added 7. 8 trillion to the debt. Thats at the stage for inflation that we have. And i want to look in the camera right now and tell you. I know youre watching, you cant help yourself, i know youre watching, okay, and youre not here tonight, not because of polls and not because of younts, youre not here tonight because youre afraid of being on the stage. Defending your record, youre ducking these things, and let me tell you whats going to happen, you can doing that, no one up here is going to call you donald trump anymore, were going to call you donald duck. During the chaotic twohour debate, the contenders also clashed with one another over several issues from china to immigration to the economy. Trump who is still a dominant frontrunner skipped the event as he did during the first debate held in wisconsin last month, trump was rathering with autoindustry workers in the battleground state of michigan a day after president joe b. A union picket line, trump announced in august he will be skipping the debates because he doesnt need to waste time on the distant uh challenges of his. Mual biden was a frequent target for the candidates who attacked the administration for failing to stem the migrant crisis. Workers from italys bankrupt National Airline al italia has state protest in rome. Thousands of demonstrators are calling on government to reinstate their positions or at least protect their social. Reports workers the now defined flag carrier al italiaa met in front of the ministry of labor in the italian capital on tuesday as part of action called by the country space union cub unionists have been demanding consecutive governments to instate thousands of alitalia workers have been left in luurch following years of mismanagement and state backed rescues in october 20. 2021, the 74 year old carrier al italia made its final flights in the end of an era for italy, the airline has been replaced by the new National Carrier, ita, non crediamo che ci siano, we do not think that under the corrent crisis, the government would be able to repoy us externally, it is paradoxical that while im talking, the government is hiring workers from outside for the three new companies alatalia has been split into, the new National Carrier ita is only higher. Around a quarter of the estimated 10,000 al italian employees, al italian workers have been feeling betrayed by italys largest trade unions. The man you seen over there is a unionist, when he was hired by al italia, he was just basic pilot. After ita replaced ali, he became a medium hall captain, and soon after a long hall captain. Practically the union he works for has sold the italian our contract off, and coincidentally he obtained the deal which led to the formation of the new line company ita also called for slashing the number of Airline Slots at rome and milan airports. Italys government has recently sold a Minority Stake of the successor of the countrys flagship carrier al italia to germanys lootansa. However, the European Commission has not approved the deal, yet, decision that has left the italian Prime Minister georgia miloni pas. Im afraid the eu only wants to transfer more italian slots to germanys loftansa, having said that the deal is not valid as there is no discontinuity between the old and new national line, an italian judge has ruled the position of brussels on the deal nonbinding and us workers should be rehired. Former alial workers believe that brussels has been planning for years to slim down the European Airline market to only three major players, British Airways or france. Muslims in nigeria are observing the islamic week to commemorate birth anniversary Prophet Muhammad peace be upon hims correspondent danjum abdullah he has more in this report. Hundreds of gaely dressed nigerian muslims have rallied insulja as server of the capital abuja to mark the start of the islamic unity week which commemorates the birth. Anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, as per recal made the late founder of the Islamic Republic of iran imam humani, the week entering the two dates of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, one narrated by shias and the other by sunnis is marked each year as islamic unity week to promote convergence from muslims. Nigerians who match through sull called for unity among muslims, as directed by imam komeini. They also ask muslims to emulate the character of the prophet of islam muhammad, peace be upon him, a man that was sent by god himself to teach other human beings, a man that leads the world from adam to people yet onborn, a man thats come to show the whole world what freedom is, on like what the western world is doing today, the hypocrisy of the western world. The participants in the rally also slammed some western countries. Over their injustice, oppression and hatred against muslims. Meanwhile, they stress that Prophet Muhammad was the messenger of morality, forgiveness, and justice. Come to show the equality that there should be no injustice that that justice should be revell in the world entirely and theres no different between kings and less privilege ones in time of worshipping and time of respect humanity we are all equal before we are one nigerians are scheduled to hold other events to comeorate the islamic unity week which will culminate on the 17th day of the lunar calendar month of which marks, the birth anniversary of the prophet, according to the shia narrative. This year, the day falls on october 3rd. Maulud is celebrated in islamic countries and other nonislamic countries with significant muslim population. Here in nigeria, govern has declared the occasion as a Public Holiday and called on muslim citizens to pray for the nation. Thats a wrap for now, but stick around, ill be back on the top of the hour with our news and brief, see you soon. 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