From our moscow headquarters youre watching r. T. International with me Rosana Lockwood thank you for joining us. Saudi arabia is claiming to have proof that iran was behind the bombing of its all refineries at the weekend and that the attack was not conducted from yemen iran swiftly rebuffed the defense ministries claims is lacking real evidence caleb maupin has the details. Well we heard the press conference from the Saudi Ministry of defense earlier and we also understand that at this point mike pompei o has arrived in saudi arabia for his working visit and he is referring to the attack as an act of war in blaming iran but at the press conference that we heard they announced that they had carried out a thorough investigation and come to some pretty specific conclusions as. The attorney did not originate from yemen the attack was launched from the moon and was on question be sponsored by a wrong its not in the range of yemens capabilities if it was them who conducted the attack this is one of the missiles we have recovered and we have information that leads us to the source of these kind of components were made in iran as the saudi officials were speaking they had scattered parts of the missiles to route the room and they pointed to these scattered parts of the missile to make their point that iran was responsible if that Iranian Regime and the i. R. G. C. Are trying to hide any evidence of the components and the Technology Im sure we will. Were working on whoever is responsible about to take accountability basically as the saudi officials were speaking they argued that the components of these missiles were iranian made they said that iran is attempting to hide evidence interestingly when they were pressed for details about the location from which the attack was launched they gave some rather vague answers this is saudi officials responding to questions from reporters when when is the breaking point what is the red line where you feel youll be compelled to respond militarily. That were working right now to move launch point and when we have it we will have evidence that the decision is not on my level now the Islamic Republic of iran has responded and said that this is simply not accurate and they said that saudi arabia does not have real proof that iran is responsible. The News Conference from the Saudi Arabian defense ministries press secretary is a catastrophe for saudi arabia theyve shown they cannot prove or know exactly where the cruise missiles and drawings were made from exactly where that attack was launched or why ed offensive systems could not prevent that attack we heard from Hooshang Amirahmadi president of the American Iranian Council he says any action against iran will be taken by the u. S. And not saudi arabia the saudis have already decided that iran is behind that United States has already decided that the u. S. That iran was. Behind their support you know today actually very openly said that this was an act of war on the other fortunate that no matter what you dont doesnt think it is are appointed to iran and that the International Community sooner or later will become convents to code that iran is responsible their americans will have to decide whether to attack eat our food and come pretty eat and destroy the country in 48 hours or stay put and use sanctions as in the past to kill this damage her public they said this decision will not be made in saudi arabia it will be made in the u. S. Now turning to another headline stories israel 2nd a parliamentary election this year has produced yet another stalemate neither the Prime Minister nor his main rival have enough allies to form a government which means like the Coalition Talks lie ahead paula slayer has the details. Well it certainly seems as if youve read the situation wrong this is the 2nd election in 6 months and its the 2nd time in 6 months that netanyahu has lost he is being placed 2nd to the full the army chief benny gantz who heads up party now the race has been tight its only 160000 seats that is the equivalent of that one parliamentary mandate so its only one 160000 seats that separate the 2 leaders. Who is running out of Coalition Partners he hasnt got any new partners to approach to put sides his traditional ones and hes also making a desperate attempt to try and present this in a positive light hes made an appeal which he says we will fight on to form a strong zionist government without the arab parties many people here interpret that as the disparate words of a desperate man they need guns is not going to be tossed presumably with forming the next government he says he is prepared to potentially work with netanyahu slee could party but only if netanyahu is not there and netanyahu of course is not going to accept this but there are questions whether or not in the future the party might actually osc him to step down so that they can form that unity government and still remain within the Ruling Coalition believe him and he really is the king the king maker here and he is expected to have between 8 and 10 seats now and he and netanyahu have a lot of bad blood between them so on the one hand theyll need to put their personal differences aside and then on the other hand the time yahoo is committed to the orthodox parties and lieberman is campaigning on the ticket of secularism he wants nothing to do with the orthodox parties so it seems almost impossible hunters are not whos going to be able to form a coalition with lieberman on the one side in the orthodox parties on the other so so this is the problem in israel is just too Many Political parties with too many different agendas the sense one gets here is that the country is in a position of stalemate almost in the same position that it was 6 months ago and thats why increasingly more questions are being. As to whether or not it through the nixon is going to be held which is just essentially going to cost the country more money its going to create more fatigue and more frustration amongst israelis. Political analyst Michelle Barack believes that for now netanyahu has no Viable Options for a coalition the ironic thing is the last election which was a few months ago and its and you know had really all the options in the world he could have formed a right of Center Government a narrow one with about 61 suits or he could have sat down with benny gantz and had a unity government with 70 and added more parties he chose to do neither he wasnt successful and either called for new elections now what it appears is i would say its the final countdown to the end of the career of that and you know hes talking about a narrow right of center zionist government you know a narrow government and benny gantz is sounding like a leader unifying the people the will of the people hes going to talk to all the parties most of the parties that have run from the left blue and white to the labor party to the Democratic Camp Party all of them as said will join a National Unity government with the likud even we just wont do it with it and you know that and you know for most israeli politicians and many and many of the israeli people as damaged goods. Indias foreign minister has suggested new delhi should take control over the pakistani portion of kashmir his remarks prompted a furious response from islamabad the 2 countries have been at loggerheads over kashmir for more than 70 years since they failed to agree on the borders drawn up during the british partition of india. It used to be one country under british rule where communities of differing religions live side by side for generations but 70 years ago independence or the region split into india and pakistan in a process that went down in history books as the partition and so did the man who hurriedly through the border the year 1947 the dying days of the British Empire weakened by the 2nd world war india became a burden london was also unable to counter the growing Independence Movement led by matt maganda to fix it britain appointed lord louis mountbatten as the last viceroy of india he made it clear it was not his dream job. I am prepared to accept the job only on one condition india must be granted independence by july 948 and i will not stay there a day longer. Once he arrived though he decided he couldnt wait that long it needed to be sorted more quickly in just 5 weeks to be precise and to lord Cyril Radcliffe a british lawyer who had never set foot in india he was tasked with drawing a line between the most cohesive muslim and hindu Populated Areas just like mountbatten radcliff 2 found india not to his liking. It was impossible to undertake the field survey in june because of the heat so how does anyone whos not familiar with the situation on the ground decide where the border is going to be well studied the maps obviously its all in there the demographics the religious majority its also simple isnt it but the areas with the majority of muslims in pakistan and the hindus in india Problem Solved right if the aspirations of some people had not been fulfilled the fault must be found in political arrangements with which im not concerned the ratcliffe line was only revealed to the people the day before independence and see. Celebration were replaced with fear and confusion as millions woke up on the wrong side of the border the partition and the radcliffe line led to unprecedented violence resulting in up to a 1000000 deaths so how did it all go wrong many areas had equal numbers of muslims and hindus radcliffe also didnt take the sikhs into account and he never even heard of kashmir. I was not even aware of kashmir i heard about it long after i returned to london both lord mountbatten and lord radclyffe made a swift exit from the heat leaving millions of people to deal with their quick and toxic solution for generations to come. Well today in india controlled kashmir a Communications Blackout is being enforced making it very difficult if not impossible for people on either side of the disputed region to speak to each other india says it was put in place to curb potential violence and prevent the possibility of separatist rallies we spoke to a family unable to call their relatives on the indian side of the border. Oh my own sit up since last march weve been unable to get ahold of our relatives in indian held kashmir but we keep trying the air is totally disconnected ive seen for myself this kind of atrocity back in 2010 when i went to india and how kashmir the situation was intense. We were dying to know their condition were concerned something isnt right we have no idea of they have food to eat if Young Children are going hungry you. Know. And does it do that the whole time. And yes it is like this when they were trying to reach down we pray for them constantly our hearts are bleeding we just want to see them again. Kashmir is split into 3 parts administered by India Pakistan and china which also have claims to parts of the territory tensions escalated recently after new delhi stripped india administered kashmir its only muslim majority state of its autonomy in august pakistan rejected the move saying it contravenes International Law and on tuesday indias lead in their entry modi announced the kashmir region would get a Development Boost including Foreign Investment he says the region has to be made prosperous and negotiations are already underway meanwhile indias top Court Ordered the federal government to restore normal life in kashmir a soon as possible we asked some regional lists whether blackouts and the other severe measures were necessary in kashmir. Exceptional Situation Requires exceptional measures and. Implementers im sure the government will vote. You know that he started it off by name is on. A lot of things are we relaxed what examples was britons are open most of the day i think is open. And the marilyn connections are. Of course some restrictions are there in due course of brain those instructions would also be removed so those who are gay will be released in the hoodie dupers are very little except those who held some criminal charges or charges against them and the cases are going against them in the us or its clearly the some of the confusion and the restrictions on the Communications Restrictions especially. Telephone and on internet are working because a lot of the cross border terrorist attacks have happened through coordination or were these means and also through. The other such things which are not you know which are encrypted and not easy to crack for the intelligence agencies so i think some of the restrictions will remain but 90 more than 90 percent of Kashmir Valley which is a muslim majority part of june 1 kashmiri are already did time. Dictions have been lifted and landline telephones are actually working and i know of my own friends there who have been able to communicate with me to landlines so its not that theyre completely i saluted or theres a daughter blackout but gradually i think as the security situation improves i think most of these really believed it. Now in a show of support and its well known figures from russias film and t. V. Industry voicing their solidarity with a young actor who they say was wrongfully convicted of resisting arrest pavel you know if was detained during a protest rally or last months Mayoral Election in moscow hes now appealing his 3 and a half year sentence as medina explains. The moscow court has sentenced a young up and coming out. To 3 and a half years and prison for attacking a member of russias National Guard during an unsanctioned rally that took place on august the 3rd now the officer who arrested villa testified in court and he said that he was an active participant in the rally that he was shouting unto government slogans and that he during the arrest he dislocated his shoulder meanwhile there is a video footage. Rast and many were outreach saying on the video puddle simply stance by the metro station looking at his phone and not shouting any slogans himself says that he did not intend to use force he stumbled backwards and denies that he is guilty of any wrong doing now the judge read refused to review the video footage of the rats ruling that introduced by the prosecution was sufficient this case sparked an outcry and attracted the attention else maney different people from well known journalists to a number of high profile figures and of the a world of culture here in russia all offering support for. Regarding the standoff i have to repeat literally what i wrote a blog its not a matter of solidarity its about justice injustice is what destroy states the situation in which the action. Himself is a blatant injustice its impossible to ignore its all keep silent. No the point is not in communities so that but in the fact that this directly concerns me to the monstrous injustice and cynicism with which this is been done come affect everyone and now other defendants facing similar charges was released from prison and placed on to travel restrictions so all these cases the track now a lot of attention. A new tell all book about allegations of alleged Sexual Harassment by u. S. Supreme Court JusticeBrett Kavanaugh has been previewed in the New York Times but the papers facing a backlash for apparently taking things out of context. Been reading between the lines if youre kind of sick of hearing the same story all over again like the president called this or that media nothing but junk or youre glad you havent heard the name brand cavanaugh and something related to his genitals for a while im really sorry i dont think theyll do it but they should for the good of the nation i call for the resignation of everybody or to do york times involved. Yeah which is once again one of the biggest stories in the land of trump and cold versus the liberals here we go so to top journalists wrote a book and had a preview published in the sunday paper whats being teased are 2 previously reported alleged cases of Sexual Harassment by Brad Cavanaugh now a supreme Court Justice from his years at yale. A freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pull down his pants and trust his penis at her prompting her to swatted away and inadvertently touch it. The class meet max tear some mr cameron with his pants down and a different drunken dream party where friends pushed his penis into to hand over a female student now that is gross if it fell on mr cavanaugh was really up to all that surely he must face severe consequences although for now these are just lines from a book not something put forward by lets say the folks from the Justice Department but if you pick almost any one of the democratic president ial candidate lineup theyve made up their minds on what should be next for kavanaugh confirmation is not exoneration and these news revelations that disturb him like the man who appointed him kevin all should be impeached he was put on the court through a sham process and he is placed on the court as an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice he must be impeached it is more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath he should be impeached i stand with survivors and countless other americans in calling for impeachment proceedings to begin but dig a bit deeper and perhaps trumps latest rant at the n. Y. T. Isnt so wide off the mark there could have been a bit of a problem with their journalistic ethics you see some conservative folks got an advanced copy of the book and realized something rather important was dropped in the times teaser the book notes quietly that the woman max steer named as having been supposedly victimized by kavanagh in france denies any memory of an alleged event seems i dont know significant it was then the papers turn to do something about it after a while heres what they came up with. An earlier version did not include want aliment of the books account regarding an assertion my classmate to friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into him of a female student and a Drunken Party the book reports that if female student declined to be interviewed and friend see the she does not recall the incident that information has been added to. The authors were bound to be asked why the central piece of the puzzle was missing in your draft of the article did it include those words that have since been added to the article and to it so somewhere in the editing process those words were no i mean i think what happened actually was that you know we had her name and you know the times doesnt usually include the name of rectum and so i think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it and in removing her name they removed the other reference to the fact that she didnt remember that they could have done a good job at protecting the victim or they could have missed the whole thing up wildly because no matter whats not in the article they say her name is in the book or maybe mr crump was right and they didnt want to read the story of that extra spice and left out the crucial bit on purpose what if the woman doesnt even consider herself a victim she reportedly says she doesnt remember anything gross like this oh god. His genitals liberal media rob watch this space my friends. The teenage face of the Global Climate change movement has been giving the us congress a dressing down 16 year old told members to listen to scientists and take real action she met former president barack obama and addressed the senate dont invite us here just to tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesnt lead to any thin i know youre trying but just not hard enough sorry. Then berg is in washington for a few days ahead of a Global Climate strike planned for friday she will also address the un Climate Action summit in new york on monday the youngster became the face of this years climate protests by taking part in school strikes and skipping class joined by students from around the world scientists though are warning of a growing number of youngsters being treated for eco anxiety after being exposed to apocalyptic warnings about the earths environmental plight britains Climate Psychology Alliance is children a big prescribe psychiatric drugs to cope and once the problem to become a recognised condition Group Executive and psychotherapist Carolyn Hickman believes its a rational fear and it shouldnt be medicated away. Younger people are naturally very empathetic to the state of the environment most going on in the wild at the moment were talking about their future of course they perceive this as a real threat to them so i think its perfectly understandable they are really quite stressed and distressed about this this is a very emotionally healthy response to the news that the world at the moment a recount ignore whats going on in the news because the graphic images are fine its not granting me quite right when i would be very concerned to hear that said childrens just gestures being medicated away as i said you know their emotional responses make perfect sense in their lives whats going on in the wild so the 1st thing we need to do is listen to them talk to them and help them process these complicated feelings its really important to tell children the truth and not hide the truth from them but child know about these things in ways that they can understand dont exaggerate it dont many might see because both of those would cause just stress and would cause problems. 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And usa appear to signal threats to iran which would defacto benefit those islamists coming up on the show the deputy chair of the founding body of modern turkey who now 7 cause tells going on the ground that Boris Johnson did not play the turkey card very cleverly when Syrian Refugees fled their homes to escape death and destruction and as you came media breathlessly promotes former pm David Camerons memoir as we get one of his former ministers to explain the libya and bricks of excuses as well as what is happening it is the bodies annual conference now with added blairite labor notes territory defectors plus the chair of Britains International trade committee and just mcneil in a parliament shot down the end of Boris Johnson and the end of the United Kingdom all those or more coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st straight to the threat of a u. K. U. S. War in iran joining me now from istanbul is the deputy chair of the Founding Party of modern turkey and else of a cause was turkish ambassador to the u. K. When going to minister David Cameron came to power thanks so much for coming on and also before i even get to the meeting of 3 president s in the capital monday just what did you make of trump saying he is locked and loaded after all in june he said he called all for an attack on iran then it of course iran borders turkey to its east what i think its a very complicated situation 1st of all nobody knows who has attacked us. Actually so the key word here is prudence and beauty i think the saudis are also very cautious saw the americans nobody can blame directly iran but they were the suspects that the attack has been perhaps organized and conducted by iran iran on the other side says that this is a kind of creation of a perception against iran and i think all these are happening just before the u. N. General assembly where we could perhaps see a couple of meetings and now i understand that president rouhani has made it clear that there wont be a meeting between me and the saudis have asked for an International Commission to mourn it all of the places where the attack has taken place so i think the let us wait and see you see unsourced leaks are already appearing in western Mainstream Media that it definitely was iran and not the hutus of yemen. To the around crew facility in saudi arabia i mean what do you think about the timing of it do you think it seems plausible that iran ahead of next tuesdays General Assembly in new york would do this while youre around is probably still waiting from the United States to return to the g c p a way and since they have not received any kind of sign that the states is going to accept. This all terms theyre probably reluctant in meeting and having anybody that during the u. N. General assembly i think this issue