Hello and welcome everybody, its half passtnoon here in the iranian capital tehran youre watching press tvs world news. The Aerospace Division of irans Islamic Revolution guards core has successfully launched the home grown imaging satellite nur 3. The satellite was launched uh aboard a carriadupt coshed or messenger and placed into orbit 450 kilometers above the earths surface. Our correspondent gisumi sham had earlier joined us with the details on yet another. Achievement by irans aerospace industry. This is a great achievement for iran, considering the fact bad, that iran is under harsh sanctions, so seeing the country thrive in so many fields in hightech fields in particular, is actually great news for iranians and the entire iranian nation is happy today to hear about this. This is something that always comes to mind whenever we witness. Uh some great achievement in iran, considering the fact that iran has been under a us sanction since the um beginning of the Islamic Revolution since 1979, sanctions is nothing new for iranians and then afterwards for uh whatever pretext or excuse that the us and its allies have found, theyve always had an excuse to place even more sanctions on iran, and now well uh the new nuclear uh deal and uh of course the dossier and everything pertaining to that became another excuse and then well i wont have to go over the entire story when the us pulled out of the jcpoa and imposed unilateral sanctions so basically what im trying to say is that for iranians as a nation is very difficult to have access to anything anything. Iran has vowed a resolute response to israel after the regimes Prime Minister. To use Nuclear Weapons against the Islamic Republic. While weamently and univically condemning the israeli regimes perilous threat to use Nuclear Weapons against iran as a flagrant violation of established preemptory norms of International Law, the Islamic Republic of iran firmly reaffirms its legitment and inherent rights in full accordance with International Law and the charter of the. United nations to respond resolutely to any threat and unlawful acts originating from the israeli regime. I mean made the comments sent letter to the un secretary general and the president of the Security Council, he said israels threat to use Nuclear Weapons is serious threat to International Peace and security and the International Community must not remain indifferent or silent. The iranian envoy urged the United NationsSecurity Council to denounce. Israels reckless statement, last week Benjamin Netanyahu said during his speech at the Un General Assembly that iran must quote face a credible Nuclear Threat. Yulirans deputy permanent representative to the United Nations has also announced israels Nuclear Threat against the country. Zaharshadi has called on the International Community to force regime to abandon Nuclear Weapons, join the npt and accept the iaa safeguard system. Airshady was speaking a Un General Assembly. Session on the elimination of Nuclear Weapons, she said israel through the support of the United States threatens iran with Nuclear Weapons and opposes the establishment of nuuk free zone in west asia. Ershady slammed televies a responsible threat, which she said was against International Norms and rules. The iranian official also warned against the growing threat of an arms race. She said such a threat brings the region closer to an apocalyptic scenario. A massive fire in golfs a christian wedding ceremony in iraqs northern province of na leaving over hundred people dead and scores more injured. The fire engulfed a marriage hall in the. Town of hamdania, where hundreds of guests had gathered for the event. There was no immediate official word on the cause of the blaze, but initial reports suggested fireworks at the venue may have sparked the flame. According to medical sources, the majority of injured suffer from burns and asphixiation, adding that there had also been crowd crushes at the scene. Civil defense officials reported that highly flammable and low cost Building Materials helped the flame spread, causing parts of the ceiling to collapse. The provincial governor said the death toll could rise further, staying with iraq the Prime Minister has called for the withdrawal of all us let Coalition Forces from his country. Shia al sudani says, iraq does not need foreign combat troops, he added that the presence of military advisors must also be regulated. The premier said a clear timeline should be set for the exit of Foreign Forces in line with efforts to save. Sovereignty and stability combat troops were deployed to iraq as part of an International Coalition in 2014 to fight the daish terrorists, but despite the defeat of the tacfity group, hundreds of us soldiers remained stationed in iraq. In 2020, iraqi lawers voted for an immediate withdraw of the forces from the country. Cubas ambassador to the us has condemned a recent attack on the countrys. In washington calling it a terrorist incident. We think that is a terrorist attack. Imagine how the us would label a person or an event where a person standing outside one of your embassies around the world throw to uh molotof cocktail . Would the would the would the us label this as a . Civilian case or a hatred or any other case, no. Rivera said that molatov cocktails thrown at the embassy on sunday was part of pattern of attacks directed at cuban overseas missions over the last 10 years. She said, however that the attack could not interrupt the embassies work, the cuban envoy also called on washington to secure the em staff and the premises to prevent. Similar attacks uh in the future, on monday, cuban president miguel diaz kaniel also condemned the attack and urged the us to take action, hatred once again caused a terrorist attack against our embassy in washington, an act of violence and weakness that could have cost precious lives. We denounce it. And await action from the north american authorities. Also top cuban Bruno Rodriguez paria blasted the Us Government saying anticuban groups in the us conduct such attacks because they feel impunity. He said havana has repeatedly warned us authorities about the issue meanwhile, us Law Enforcement officials said they were investigating the attack. No one has taken responsibility for throwing two molotof cocktails in the embassy compound. On sunday, and russia says its options are narrowing down to direct conflict with nato, a day after ukraine received usmate abrahams tanks. Dimitri medviedev, deputy of russia Security Council said a direct clash between moscow and nato is more likely as the block has turned into an openly fascist alliance. His comments came after the recent delivery of us abrams tanks to ukraine as part of a multibillion dollar assistance medvid have. Also listed pledges for more military assistance for ukraine and said they would fail to change the circumstances on the battlefield. Relations between moscow and nato degraded after war between russia and ukraine began in february 2022. Russia says the western military assistance to ukraine will only prolong the war. Its been a week since azerbaijans military launched a deadly attack to take control of the ethnic armenian. Armenia, thats not completely out of azerbaijans agenda, azerbaijan is only ensuring it in a soverent territorial integrity, the official added that azerbaijan only wants to create. Sport links tovan through armenia, he said the move would benefit both countries and the wider region. This comes after azerbaijani president ilhaman alief held talks with his turkish countberdan during the meeting. Ali have hinted at the prospect of creating such a land corridor. Armenians in nagornokarabakh the establishment of the corridor as a preparation for war, the corner could give azerbaijan direct linked to close salli turkey. The maltreatment of refugees in the European Union and divided asylum policies among Member States were the focus of our News Review Program. Lets take a listen. Welcome everyone to press tvs News Review Program where we get in depth in one of the days top stories. Mounting tensions over the treatment to refugees in the European Union has brought the blocks divided asylum policies into the spotlight. European Commission President ursul of underline has underscored the need for effective and humane response to the issue. We want indeed. Support Member States in managing migration effectively and humanely. Vanderlain also announced a plan to increase the blocks budget target by 15 billion euros to help Member States deal with the crisis, and this emit a contentious debate on Asylum Seeker responsibilities in the 27 member block. In france, Political Parties dispute new arrival regulations. President emmanuel has held talks with italian Prime Minister georgia malone. In rome, amid tensions between the two states. On the other hand, italy, which has witnesseds a surge and the influx refugees in recent months, has lashed out at germany. Italy and germany have clashed over germanys funding of Charity Projects for migrants. Rome holds berlin accountable for encouraging migration. Joining us now for the program is max chivily press Tv Correspondent joining us from rome and john stepling, author and commentator joining. From inder roy, norway, gentlemen, like to welcome you both to the program. I guess max, were going to uh start with you to get the latest if you could, and somewhere in between your update on whats going on with respect to the growing uh divide here when it comes to the refugee crisis in europe, if you could touch upon possibly mario dragi governments response to the refugee crisis as opposed to melones. Good evening daniel, as you mentioned earlier todays meeting between. In italian Prime Minister georgia meloni and french president Emmanuel Macron came a time when relations between roma and paris are under a bit of strain. It must be said however uh that relations between the two countries have historically been uh betters with and rifts over the migrant issue have been frequent in august 2019 when italy intercepted 200 migrants in the mediterranean and kept them aboard for days asking for you. European countries to accept the redistribution, france refused to take any migrants in. In november last year, it was frances turn to blame it on italy over migration, after a charity operated ship, carrying hundreds of Asylum Seekers, many of them sick, docked in the french port of toulone after almost three weeks being stranded at sea during italys current, sorry, with the current government on and get failing to give it. Safe port, so the rifts over the migrant issue between the two countries have been there for for a long time. Now italys Prime Minister maloni is under heavy pressure to deliver on an Electoral Campaign promise to end migration. She took office about year ago, pledging to crack down on illegal migration. 12 months later, not only migration is not ending, but the number of migrants have have uh has tripled compared to 2021, almost double compared to last year, so im quoting malone here, italy needs the eus help to handle the emergency caused by the surgeon migrant arrivals and nobody had stepped up so far until last sunday uh macron, the french president macron said in a tv interview that france cannot leave the italians on their own when it comes to the migrant issue, so meloni today took the lip. Uh um macron was is in italy uh to attend the state funeral former italian president giorgio napolitani napolitano so meloni took the leave to continue her exchange of views with macron on the need to find a european solution to the migration issue. Thank you max. Mr. John stepling, welcome to the program. John, is there a more polarizing issue thats playing the European Union right now . You cant even say the ukraine war because 90 of the countries or. 70 or 80 are on the west side and theres a couple that defer because of uh certain issues like energy and the fact they feel like theres no chance that ukrains going to prevail in this thing its really hurting russia i mean uh the europe uh quite badly, but when it comes, i mean to a divide, theres nothing thats fracturing the European Union worse than this. Yeah, i dont think you can find a topic that is more politicized than immigration, certainly not in europe, and it has uh, it has given rise to number of far right parties that uh, either out right, rule a european country with italy being one, or are members of a coalition uh, this this is and and ones that presumably will continue to to um to pole well like vox in spain, uh, but but you have to put put this in a wider perspective, in in actual numbers, the immigrants coming to europe in a sane, rational world could easily be absorbed, the migrants that you see coming to europe are pretty. Much a direct result of us, interference, the manufacturing of conflicts, the arming of conflicts and and the the scorecard is starting to to look rather bad for the us, gentlemen, thank you both for joining us on the program, that was mr max chibilly pressed to be correspondent there joining us out of rome and john stepling joining us from inderway norway and viewers that brings us the conclusion your press tv News Review Program, thank you for tuning in and goodbye for now. Well china says its recent military drills around taiwan were aimed at maintaining readiness to deal with separate forces on the selfruled island. The Peoples Liberation army, the pla has been conducting series of military exercises around the taiwan. Trade with the aim of firmly combatting the arregance of separates forces of Taiwan Independence and the pursuit of independence. As long as the provocations for Taiwan Independence continue, the actions of the pla in defense of National Sovereignty and territorial integrity will not stop. Again issued warnings to separatist forces in taiwan, which china sees as a part of its territory, chinas army has not ex explicitly mentioned or commented on the drills, but chinas Taiwan Affairs offices confirmed that there were series of exercises near the island. Taip has also reported regular sightings of the Chinese Military around the island. Taiwan remains a source of tensions between china and the United States. Washington doesnt have diplomatic relations with taipei, but repeated visits by american lawers to taiwan have angered china. Relations between taiwan and china deteriorated sharply since a visit to the island by the then us House Speaker nancy pelosi. August last year, well the us has often said that it is not after conflict with china, yet it is acted otherwise, especially when it comes to military sales. The us is now negotiating to supply vietnam with the large arms package, including f16 fighter jets, which could possibly be the largest arms. Transfer in their history. The u. S. President joe biden went a 3day trip asia recently. His trip included in india for the g20 summit, then vietnam to upgrade their bilateral relationship. The purpose of this trip was to enhance us relationship with regional countries, especially in a g20 format, but that is just a formal way of not saying what the two intentions of the us president. Were forters, joe biden had said that his intentions to strengthen ties with chinas neighbors werent designed to contain beijing, a phrase that he has repeated 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 chinas beginning to change some of the rules of the game, but his visit to vietnam right after the g20 summit related a different message, the two countries signed a historic agreement to upgrade relations to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership. Joe biden secured deals with vietnam on semiconductors and minerals. So important is vietnam for the us that executives from google, intel, amcore, marvel, global foundaries, and boing met with. Tech executives along with the secretary