Hello and welcome you are watching the weekly here on r. T. International bringing you all the latest headlines another round of the stories that shape the week great to have you with us. Now u. S. President donald trump called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before it was due to be launched he said and said hes neither a warmonger nor does but a man with common sense and he doesnt want to kill anybody unless its absolutely necessary. One thing i want to know and i want to know it accurately is accurately. How many we go. I dont want to go on the radio and i understand it i am friends with radio many friends i dont want to kill a 100 year betty ford anybody. Alleging that we did it. The council to talk was meant to be in retaliation for 2 wrongs downing of a u. S. Military surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz iran said it was ready to add to its collection of downs drones if washington violates it says space on the scale of more pronounceable. In terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid our iran is said that the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the United Nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this point weve got the Iranian Foreign minister condemning the United States for what he calls economic terrorism the us wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now encroaches on our territory we dont seek war but was endlessly defend our sky land and water is will take this new aggression to the u. N. And show you that the u. S. Is lying about International Waters now the u. N. Secretary general antonio gets here as is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. The situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really need any measure of confrontation with russian president Vladimir Putin recently said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous which id like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u. S. And iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences its very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is powerless in toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the United States has approached iran during the trumpet ministration of their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east its a rare. Major destabilize. Employers in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos weve been trying to do is to get the run to behave like a normal patient. Now the United States recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the Islamic Republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the United States blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials rejected those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u. N. Where International Bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes are on washington as a response from the United States could be very possible kaleb mopp an artsy new york. As the blame game ramps up washington is tightening the economic screws on to iran with new sanctions to hit the Islamic Republic on monday had abbas people they knew they would support a war against iran. Can you imagine a situation where it would be you would be in support of a war with iran suppose it was the old stuff the one was another war and then another war then another you know one thing is another way. To. Go about things open assassinations and bombing other people and we knew about it you could prove it i think we need real proof that some type of activity is actually happening where people are losing life losing land where some type of injustice is happening at the hands of iran but at this point i dont really know that thats necessarily true a terrorist attack on you know innocent people you know Something Like 911 happens of course the response is this is necessary and immediate. Is war the answer to that maybe not maybe but i still think personally we should find a different solution besides war weve been to many wars a lot of people have died in doesnt seem to make the issues go away. Well as against the whole order i think the country maybe can resolve is always use. Countries interference i can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for peace Senior IranianNational Security official carney say as well to run has never attacked anybody it is ready to retaliate. Or have rules. You can find our troops statements always different for example statements from yesterday and today he also contradicts white house officials such political memories devoid of logic and common sense we do not take seriously his threats and contradictory statements but in the end it must be noted that the Islamic Republic of iran is not iraq or afghanistan we are a big state and have strong Popular Support both during the present but also past hardships the Islamic Republic has been Standing Firm and never attacked anyone and will not do that if we are attacked the aggressor will regret it at the same time we strive for peace and security in our region the policy of sanctions and the economic war launched by trump against the iranian people will not yield in the results this is a hostile policy that will be defeated as a result. Members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a Corruption Scandal leaks documents appear to reveal that officials from one quite ows movement of been embezzling aid funds for personal use the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. Humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition liars but they are thieves too who stole thousands of dollars from each other thousands of dollars from an aid concert on the colombian border where apparently theft on hotels that prostitutes and luxury goods by 2 members of the greatest party they were in charge of everything the humanitarian aid gassing of reports. Sex drugs and rocknroll arent something youd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly that seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and embarrassed that what theyve uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe getting supplies into them to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly selfproclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. We gladly armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with families some of the small children they skeptical on beer they were put in hotels and by mid march it were living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current Living Conditions we do not know. How could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government to hotels is all who and why do those representatives had to pay for except they didnt according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do all of this a month ago. We couldnt allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans thats why as soon as we had the information about the Ongoing Investigation we decided to send it straight to every impartial of dorothy. The people who did this bear in mind were appointed by why do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already Public Knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesnt cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions. This huge drop in corruption. That we could use fall Sick Children instead of being spent including medicine that has been used to go whole prostitutes expensive Shopping Trips and Luxury Hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze the live 8. 00 concert that Richard Branson has led along with others in the u. S. Pro champs of february 22nd 23rd is a complete failure for those forces inside of venezuela and colombia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury in 5. 00 star hotels and therefore theyre really showing what theyre about its about. Our personal enrichment the Corruption Scandal is just one small part of what the u. S. Is engaging in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of venice well its hundreds of millions its chance of billions of dollars that the u. S. Is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people. The president of georgia is urging russians to continue visiting her country with tbilisi insisting its safe for tourists and foreign journalists as well to moscow temporarily banned direct flights to and from georgia Russias Foreign Ministry alleges that georgias radical opposition is exploiting the visit of a russian delegation to mount protests 240 people have been injured in the demonstrations including 80 Police Offices and a producer. Agency. Was. Was think. The to. The. Who is not a good look at dog the situation got very heated there was respirator and then the crowd geared up for another storm stone sticks and bottles were thrown from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed tear gas protests are outside of the russian amp a 2nd gavrilov site of the chair of the Georgian Parliament speaker this happens during the opening session of a multilateral Parliamentary Assembly meant to promote orthodox christianity and georgian opposition prevented people from taking to the podium afterwards we talked to cover a lot who told us radicals are attempting to disrupt already complicated russia georgia relations. President well you only see it as a president of the assembly i have the right to take this seat in any country where the Assembly Session is held in this case the place was offered by the georgian side the session was invaded by radicals who shouted threats to our lives we tried to continue but more radical activists showed up with cameras and posters with anti russian and insulting slogans we decided to finish the session in the hotel nearby radicals tried to storm the hotel they attacked members of parliament including me when we tried to leave i believe all of this is the races styria in the wake of protests to take power. Earlier the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happened saying the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin she cut short a visit to batteries to return home due to antigovernment demonstrations and the kremlin responded to the accusations russophobe a provocation thats how moscow described the 2 day 2 days of launch a rally is in the georgian capital protesters are now demanding the government resign and the rally is being held right now in the countrys capital tbilisi so far its been proceeding without incident we spoke to the former acting president of georgia nina. She believes the government has been for mentoring anti wash and sentiment. The russian border generalizations are really very difficult and sensitive for your us society and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m. P. In the chair of doj and speaker is this something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is there just touching in the plan and sense of morality of the country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government job i had absolutely unbelievable how an incompetent is the government and its absolutely sure from the clip from me that the government did nothing for you improvement of russian georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction the political cartoonists who are calling them liars themselves as a pro western and that right now 2 years of these are hard to say sincere pretty numbers of people in their Political Goals and to you are just strengths in these 2 russian really exists in a serious part of the georgian population the only one who girl could be blamed for the east and shouldnt be armstead and but itll be irresponsible lazed this is a government and to be duty on this government. Is coming up after this short break. When i often say like you the enemys e. M. T. Car we should not forget that if you could interest to transport the cars to boost used to mean of transport if you could that carpooling or what we do is actually very very tiny today so the biggest expansion for us not in the next year but in the next 510 years is how do we build a better product with more trials more safety maybe a better economy contract between the best of the driver to convince more drivers to shove a cord more passengers as opposed to. Some time off shows where like a honeypot everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the reliability of russia but they thought that everything was great over there russian businessmen wanted to do business in the west because they feared some could take everything away from them in russia which now is the opposite they have businesses outside of russia was snatched less is frozen the old log now they sit and whine about. Welcome back. To saudi arabia could be on the line after paste a campaign has won a legal challenge over the potential use of the weapons in yemen they claim the lucrative contracts breach International Law and contribution see what the u. N. Calls the walls worst humanitarian crisis British Appeal Court judges are now demanding ever few here is what the opponents of the arms sales to the kings have had to say right after the verdict. This goes to the very top of the conservative party we now need a judicial review in the whole arm zeisel system parliament has been shown to be totally broke we now need a Public Inquiry on this matter the government should not waste time in appealing this judgment the government should fix our system this has been a brutal condemnation of u. K. Foreign policy versus been a very strong judgment against it we want to see action from the government the court has done its job its time for the government to do its job the decisions that took in relation to existing licenses and make the decisions it took to continue to grow on licenses those decisions are a little full and they have to go back and reconsider because decision might affect the case largest defense contractor to be a systems as riyadh represents a significant part of the groups business since the saudi led bombardment began in 2015 the u. K. s license 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons but as it is the 2nd biggest exporter of bombs to the saudis and its the u. K. s Largest Military export contract with no end in sight to the conflicts yemen is on the brink of collapse you may find some of the following images disturbing. Since the beginning of the operation the saudi government has been insisting its fighting the hoof the rebels only without targeting civilians meanwhile in the face of strong criticism at home conservative Party Ministers have been at pains to stress that its not the u. K. Which chooses the targets in yemen as well the british politician we spoke to say the general election could be a game changer. At a time when most of british attention is focused inevitably on braggs it its really important that we do look at the issues such as those and in particular in this special case because so many people are losing their lives in yemen and really its a difficult situation that has to be resolved and its significant that all of the opposition parties not just the labor party but also the liberal democrats and the scottish nationalists and other smaller parties have agreed really that this is not something that britain ought to be supporting its really only the conservatives who have taken this line of strong support for sales to saudi arabia and so there are probably will need to be a general election for that to change and that is more likely to succeed perhaps than the legal challenge. The russian president s annual q. And a session received more than 2000000 questions from the public about him appear to spend some 4 hours on the assailants when more than 80 questions on various subjects