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nbc news they will not escalate their conflict with israel describing last night's attack as child's play. >> is iran done for right now sending any more missiles or attacking israel? >> translator: if israel retaliates and comes over to new adventurism, we will respond. if not, then we are done. we are concluded. >> reporter: iran's foreign minister, hossein amirabdollahian, would not even acknowledge an attack by israel. speaking through an iranian government interpreter, he said they quickly downed the drones flying over isfahan. >> translator: they took off from inside iran, and they flew for, like, a few hundred meters, and then they were downed and struck by our air defense,
and it hasn't been proven there is a connection between this and israel. >> when you attacked israel, you telegraphed that attack and let other arab nations know this was happening. did anyone, any other country tell iran last night, this attack was coming? >> translator: what happened last night was not a strike. >> but did any other country tell you something was happening, and they would invade your airspace and attack possibly one of your bases? >> translator: two or three. they're more like toys that our children play with, not drones. it was not worth telling us before it happened. >> in your opinion, that was not an attack by israel last night even though we've seen explosions on video? >> translator: we are investigating this, the matter, the claim that is made in the media according to our information is not accurate, and israel is trying to after propaganda. >> reporter: the foreign minister warned if they struck again, iran would respond with force. >> translator: if
for writers from other countries to have safe spaces in america, amongst other places. and then yeah, it just turned out not to be a safe space for me. >> for years. no place was safe for salman rushdie who sprawling 600 page novel, the satanic verses, offended some muslims for its depiction of the prophet muhammad ron's, i had told khomeini issued a fatwa, a religious decree calling for rushdie his death in 1989 hi. >> there. we're worldwide protests from london to lahore the satanic verses was burned and 12 people died in clashes with police. >> the books japanese translator was murdered and others associated with it were attacked did you have any idea that it would cause violence? no. i had no idea. i thought probably some conservative religious people wouldn't like it. what they didn't like anything i wrote anyway, so i felt well they don't have to read it. were you naive
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especially since the other parties want a closer economic partnership with china. that's the first step for encroachment, right? >> reporter: when the buzz of victory wears off, a sobering reality for the new president, his party lost control of the parliament, a sign of d dissatisfaction. the twoterm president tsai ing wen put taiwan on the stage. >> translator: we're telling the international community between democracy and authoritarianism, we stand on the side of democracy. >> reporter: and safeguard taiwan from ongoing threats.
the international court of justice, south africa, calling it a war in self-defense despite the death toll and it is hamas who wants to commit genocide. >> translator: the hypocritical attack in the hague on the jewish state that rose in the wake of the holocaust for others who wanted to have genocide against the jews is an affront. >> thanked shulz who reject the allegation of genocide. many in tataiwan are celebrbrating the e effects ofo
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some hostage family members, as well as the french president calling for giving negotiations a chance. >> the best answer is a political solution, not a military one. there is no prize high enough, the israeli people know it, are unified with us. they know israel will never be the same if we give up on our loved ones. >> translator: it's been 100 days today, france does not abandon its children. this is why negotiations for their release must be resumed again and again. never give in, never give up. because we do not and will not accept any sacrifice. so we're going to do everything and you can count on me to bring them all home with you. >> controversial strikes in hospitals on gaza have happened often in the first months of the
able to do. today marks 100 days since hamas launched its deadly rampage killing 1200 people and taking around 240 hostages.t no under way in tel aviv to mark the occasion, set to last for 24 hours straight calling for the release of hostages still held in gaza. meanwhile netanyahu had blunt words reacting to allegations of genocide at the international court of justice, he called the case brought by south africa a hypocritical onslaught he says brought on behalf of those who want to commits another holocaust. regarding the war's 100 day mark, netanyahu said this -- >> translator: we today mark 100 days of war, 100 days since the terrible days in which our citizens were slaughtered and kidnapped. we are continuing to the war to its conclusion to total victory until we have achieved all of our objectives, elimination of