stay with saudi arabia and iran. it reverberates throughout the region. and because one way by which they wage this competition between them is through proxy fights in the rest of the region, be it in yemen, be it in syria, be it in iraq, or even be it in lebanon. so we are likely to see as tensions and as things escalate between the two countries, we are likely to see that being played out again in yemen and being played out in syria and being played out in iraq. what's problematic here is that instead of the two regional countries-- iran and saudi arabia-- focusing their resources and working together on fighting a common economy to both of them, which is isis, we are seeing this now escalation in the relationship between them, leading both to divert their resources and their attention from the real joint enemy which is isis and focusing it on waging this fight and this competition between them in different proxy sites around the region. >> kaare, im, i wonder what you believe the trump administration's response to

targeting the militants which iran said were responsible for those twin attacks that we saw into iran earlier this month and his number precedented move because it marks the first time that iran has launched strikes on syrian soil since the country descended into chaos in two thousand and eleven and it's also perhaps that iran when it means business it means business in an online statement to the revolutionary guard to launch the strikes a lot of the success of them as well they said that schools of militants were killed in these strikes and also some key infrastructure was also destroyed and so was extraordinary about this latest move is perhaps the perception shift it has for us when it comes to iran while the west has warned that iran is a country that's dangerous and that it shouldn't have weapons on the other hand iran is now using these weapons to launch strikes on islamic states the common enemy and it's also making a lot of progress in destroying this common enemy two or playing the same complicated picture to us as well from iran as well the editor in chief of iran's fars new

iran using small boats to american ships. this is disturbing for a number of reasons, but given the importance of that strait's role in global economy is certainly one of them. in addition, its link to scouting soft american targets for terrorism. so we continue to see bad behavior, threatening behavior by the iranian government towards the united states and our interest and global interests in the straits of hormuz, and the suggestion that iran is preparing, looking for opportunity for terrorist attacks against the united states and its allies in the middle east. last week two hezbollah operatives were arrested whoer in the united states. they were doing surveillance on targets in new york and on our embassies as well in israel and panama. two terrorism specialists, dan byman and scott stewart tweeted in reaction to this news that this could be the case of iran sending us an ominous message that iran can play the terror card if it wants to. if that is indeed the signal that tehran is sending to us, it is imperative that we s

it's russia syria iran has a whole lot of news has been law in addition to now you have the iraqi. army and iraq in addition to turkey all these traditional powers they have they are directly involved in the syrian conflict right now it's very difficult to speculate what will happen in the coming days but what i can tell you for a fact is that it seems that the syrian army and the syrian government are adamant on actually moving on with their operation to break the arsenal so huge on the city of there is what i'm trying to limit the ability of the u.s. . led coalition and the u.s. troops who are now on the ground in syria limiting their ability to move on limiting their ability to create influence centers almost through battlefield and we have to understand that this is not just a syrian issue this is more of an international conflict and power play between the us. well some more details of what we know about this the u.s. coalition said the syrian fighter jet was shot down after it bombed opposition forces the pentagon also accused the syrian jet of straying into a so-called d. co

talk about iran. barack 0bama spent years, invested a huge amount of time and effort in pulling together a nuclear deal with the iranians. with of course the international community, the key five plus one. he got it. he got the deal. the deal is intact. rex tillerson testified to say the iranians are meeting the conditions of that deal. yet, you continue to say, one time you called it shameful. an egregious mistake. you continue to call for new sanctions to be placed ona iran. why? because iran has not changed. iran, still by our own state department determination, the number—i state—sponsor of terrorism. iran has tens of thousands of its own forces in syria, which has become a bloodbath. a genocide of the syrian people. iran represses its own people in a way, the regime does come in a way that is brutal and unacceptable. this is all way more complicated than you have just outlined. in syria iran is backing bashar al—assad, to even some in washington represents some sort of stability in the face

but it makes good copy in iran. it isa but it makes good copy in iran. it is a way of deflecting criticism, especially because this was an operation and iranians for them to admit it was a homegrown attack and therefore instead of accepting blame for their lack of security blaming it on the others is always convenient. i do not think this is going to escalate. the stakes are far too big. going to escalate. the stakes are fartoo big. i going to escalate. the stakes are far too big. i do not think they have the capability to retaliate and this is a very, very tense period in the region and one mistake, one wrong move can actually create an enormous backlash so i think calmer heads will prevail and nothing will happen as a result. thank you very much. thank you. a teenager has been killed during opposition protests against the government of president nicolas maduro in venezuela. witnesses said the seventeen year old was hit in the chest by a tear gas canister fired by a policeman at point blank range. the country is in the midst of a severe economic crisis

we are seeing a very tense situation between iran and saudi arabia. we saw last month the crown prince of saudi arabia threatening sayiying that saudi arabia will take the fight to the rent and into i iran.. yesterday,y, the saudi foreign minister said iran needs to be punished. whether saudi is connected were behind us, nevertheless, the sentiments in iran are very much right now such that they are seeing a link to w what the saus are doing in thehe region. claimeds responsibility. what does this mean? >> could you repeat? amy: isis has claimed responsibility. and about the two sites their significance. the parliament, and the side of the tomb of the founder. >> the parliament is tremendously important because iran has had a parliament for about 100 years now. despite the fact iran is not a democracy in the western sense, it is a country that has competitive elections. we just saw those elections two weeks ago for the presidency. people tend to participate in these elections with tremendously high participation rates. it is a very important symbol of

is living up to the agreement but that's essentially where the iran. has stalled is what iran is doing in the region in terms of supporting syria and sermons of supporting sectarianism in iraq there are a lot of problems there and so saudi arabia rightly is attempting to push back on it but the danger with what president trump has done is he's essentially given a blank check to saudi arabia and so now saudi arabia maybe settling scores in a sense internally with cutter as an example in him breaking with qatar yet cutter interestingly has been supporting efforts inside iraq to promote reconciliation. dari. an iraqi who's here in washington recently talking about reconciliation process these cutters been supportive of that now they're on the outside of the saudi tent and so i don't see a real cohesiveness right now and that's the challenge so pushing back against iran is not going to be cohesive if the saudis and the gulf allies are not on the same page so joe let me ask you you know the big question that you know facing this administration and you know

can you explain why doesn't i says attack doesn't attack iran but they have attacked. attacks saudi arabia and many to many terrorist acts many times now we come to it to yemen saudi arabia and yemen shared hundreds and or a thousand miles of borders and the which is supported by iran and being supplied by very disable lethal weapons like like the scud missiles support and supported by iran and given to the many to the horses by iran and the out of thirty that war doesn't just like they did like fields ago and when they attacked so did a b. at that time we actually. get into such weapons be sent to you no no no you didn't do it is going to saudi saudi so you're not allowed on the if you added to the no no certainly no matter what they are you know you do and you do it and you wouldn't know audacity you don't know if the iraqi ran when he just. knew that he and it's me ought i would tell the country ok now i'm just going to let it alone until i see how your answer. now you know when when when this to do it at the start of this by the way we wanted the war in yemen we wo

compare that to say what iran is doing. iran tests maybe three to five missiles a year. they make minor modifications and test them out. they use others systems. that is far less and it's not enough testing to develop a new capability in a short period of time. i'm talking three to five years. so it's clear to me what we've seen is a number of new systems emerge and i'll talk about them in a moment. but what is clear is north korea is trying to create new capabilities and they're going about it in a reasonably technically valid way. the second point i want to make is that we've seen north korea move beyond the legacy scud technology. all the missiles up until kim jong-un came to power were basically powered by the scud or the nodong engine. this includes the space launcher which uses nodong and scud technology. you can see it results in a very large system. it could in principle be converted into an icbm and still have to be tested as an icbm to profit has a missile but also to validate the re-entry technologies. and wore head survivability. but this would be an immobile

iran is a. very rich in natural resources they have very rich heritage and they have very hardworking people and until nine hundred seventy nine things we had a fine between the two countries and it's really surprising after the iranian revolution when the late ayatollah khomeini took took power we expected him to be actually i mean his main purposes overthrowing the shah is to build iran and to make it say of several safe and prosperous for their own people but the first thing that the any means did in one nine hundred seventy nine was their declaration of. spreading and extending their revolution returning. to the arab world especially the gulf states and this is why most of the rain indicated are not into head on but they are in the united states and. canada and europe and when no one thing we have to go to we receive hundreds of thousands of iranians as a blogger image or every year and we have we have nothing it as they say that is the people it any other evolution it started with actually

agreement with iran. will this stance change? >> we have been very clear to the outside regime that a redline for us is chemical weapons. >> president obama drew a redline on chemical warfare. it was president trump, not president obama launched missile --ikes against the roof assad regime. i committed to reset in the relationship between our two nations. >> obama tried to reset relations with russia. it expanded moscow's influence. >> it would be wonderful if net health and our country could get along with russia. topresident trump's attempts set a new course, will they fare any better? >> as the debate continues over what president trump's america first policies mean for the u.s. and the world, one thing is certain, the world is not waiting. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our debaters and moderator, michael durand, ambassador wendy sherman and jason isaacson. good afternoon. >> in the 4.5 months since his inauguration in which he promised that from this day forward it would be america first, pr

isis striking the shrine of the founder of modern iran. a female suicide bomber blowing herself up at the tomb. a gunman opening fire, all six terrorists died, all were from iran. in a statement, the president sympathized with the victims but said states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote. in tehran, shock. >> this is like nothing we've seen in iran in 30 years. iran and isis are enemies that hate one another and we can see the evidence of that today. isis hit one of their biggest enemies. >> reporter: iran's supreme leader is vowing to hit back at isis in syria and iraq for isis losing ground there, this attack was a morale boost. for iran, an embarrassment, for the region, bad news, revenge in the air. bill neely, nbc news. >>> back home for the second day, a woman accusing comedian bill cosby of sexual assault was on the stand in his trial in pennsylvania. today, cosby's defense continued cross-examining her focussing on what it believes are inconsistencies in her story. nbc's stephanie gosk has more on

which are the powers when they're in iran there are there is iran there is russia there is terry king there are saudi arabia there are all this you know the arab states and iran. right the saudi so these are very interested in the conflict but there are no saudi troops or so in the aircraft the turks have only sent in some troops of the border area to prevent the kurds the kurds. basically to try and stop the kurds a limit the russian involvement is primarily air power. and. the iranians are present by sending militia it's mainly of shit from afghanistan and pakistan even some in india even shia militias they command now of these players saudi is absent the iranians even when drunk when they're drunk they remember that they are no military power they run the iranians have only ever fought one enemy which is iraq and they lost so these revolutionary guards are good for parades they're not fighters they cannot survive any kind of combat with american forces. of any sort even very small combat so what we have here is russian air power. and russian support for and sent now then i'm a amer

we saw that in the iran deal. president obama's attitude for the middle east is that it was an arena populated by friends and potential friends. he went to a great extent to win over the potential friends like he ran at the expense of our -- friends, like iran, at the expense of israel. to do this, he had to deceive the israelis and the american public in a number of areas. if i had come to you in this forum in 2013, and told you that the consequence of president obama's policies would be the rise of the russian-iranian alliance across the middle east, the development of an iranian territorial corridor, the displacement of 10 million people in syria, the ejection -- injection into europe of millions of refugees, or over one million refugees. if i told you that iran would emerge from the deal with the right to enrich and reprocess itnium, and within 10 years, would have an unfettered program which the international community would look upon like that of any other country, that it would be an international law on pa

to isolate iran. then several days later, we have an announcement that these arab states want to isolate qatar. are they connected? what is going on? >> well, it's simply we feel quawt by-- caught by surprise because our imirwent to the conference and i think he have a good meeting with the presidentment and always there are issues with our two countries or other countries and it's been solved through the right channels. and for us isolating iran, it ends by isolating qatar. and there are now saying that we have a very special relation and sympathy with iran and with the terrorism and financing the terrorism. first of all with iran, if you take it from commercial days which it is very important things. qatar may be 1 percent in a thousand compared to the other gulf states or their trade with iran. even in syria, we are in a different position with the iranian and syrian war. and with bashar again it's his people. so the connection, yes, we continue to try to have a normal and good relation with iran b

the bow fromf with iran to retaliate to avenge what happened in iran. what did you imagine it means for the winter gulf? gulf -- wider gulf? what the attacks have done is given the government in iran a certain measure to convince their people what the e that their intervention in syria and iraq is necessary to prevent isis from coming and fighting this war within iran's borders. amir, in terms of support that iran is giving to qatar, is this an opportunity for them? statements and reports from some of the news agencies in iran for replacing food delivery stamps and cutting off saudi arabia. reliable is this alliance between qatar and iran? guest: really, there is this talk about alliances is overblown. as your previous just mentioned the issue between the saudi's and the, rotc's with qatar has less to do with iran and more to do with qatar's relationship with other trend state actors in the gulf region and in the arab world. iran's relationship with qatar is primarily aced on the shared massive gas field which qatar qatarthe north doled, and calls subpa

inevitably, managing iran and developing a strategy for iran is going to be complicated, no matter who got elected last november, because the challenge would be, how do you implement the nuclear agreement, which i continue to believe is the best alternative from preventing them from getting a nuclear weapon, but how do you do that within a wider strategy which recognizes that iran threatened our interests? that is a tough balance to strike, but i think that is a challenge. i think there are sanctions that we can employ, whether it is missile tests that the iranians do and the development of that capability, or human rights issues -- we should not be shy about doing that, but it is a tough balance. ♪ will probablyry look at that secret mission that you and james sullivan, i'm not sure who else was there -- explain that to us. what happened? term ofs: in the first the obama administration, we worked hard to build up a fair amount of leverage against iran. by the beginning of 2013, the value of our oil had dropped -- oil exports had dropped by 50%, the value of their currency had droppe

some of the kinds of things we employed with regard to iran, affecting iran's aibility to deal, connect to the international financial system, north koreans feel mosesly through chinese banks. secondary sanctions aimed at chinese banks, you know, could have a huge impact. but that is a big roll of the dice in a relationship that that important. >> to believe the president, he seems to suggest that what he expectedded and what he hoped for is not happening, with respect to china pressuring north korea. >> right, i think it was the right thing to test but i think it was almost inevitable that the chinese weren't going to deliver in the way that president trump may have assumed. and so now the choices are a lot more complicated. >> rose: thank you for coming. great to have you. >> great to see you. >> rose: bill burns, back in a moment, stay with us. the great john mcenroe is here. he is a tennis icon. he rose to prom nensz in the 1980s winning tournaments with a style and a swagger the game had not seen. he won 104 times on tour, including seven grand slam titles. his rivalry with bjohn b

and this is about the iran nuclear deal. you have said, in fact, said fairly recently, that you would want to make sure that we are able to have snapback sanctions, was i believe your word. if our intelligence shows that iran is cheating on that nuclear deal, but you did not support just tearing it up as the president has said he would do. although he hasn't yet. but how can you be sure that our intelligence, good as it is, would be able to catch that? mr. ossoff: our intelligence community and inspectors have the capability to ss whether -- to assess whether iran is in compliance with the deal. we need monitoring of iran's compliance with its obligations to restrict iranian enrichment. furthermore, we should be prepared to impose additional sanctions if iran continues to test ballistic missiles in violation of u.n. security council resolutions. but secretary handel sees fit to shred the agreement and in so doing put iran back on the path to a nuclear weapons capability. releasing them from their obligations to restrict enri

with countries like iran, myanmar and north korea. she has been at the asia society and she was most recently in pyongyang in february and she has met with the north koreans i believe just this past month and attracted ilog. siebel turned it over to mike to get the discussion started. >> great. thank you, chelsea, thank you to the arms control association for the opportunity to speak today. i'm going to try to keep my comments as brief as possible and kelsey is agreed to kick me if i go over my time. it will be good entertainment for tv anyway. so i want to focus on making three essential points instead of kind of rehashing the different systems and such north korea is currently developing and i want to highlight them for recent. i hope this comes at the end clearly. one, we've seen this new pattern of missile testing under the regime of kim jong-un. his grandfather, kim il-sung, under his reign for making 84 84-1994, i know he began before 1984, but they started missile testing in 1984. he conducted a total of i think it was 15 test,

hezbollah cannot exist without the support from israel -- charlie: from iran. >> from iran, i'm sorry. 30's they support -- provide support to shia insurgent groups in the middle east. yemen is a great example. in thelitant groups eastern provinces of saudi arabia. shia groups in bahrain. that support is intended to overthrow those sunni regimes. fourth is it is iranian state policy for the state of israel to disappear. it is iranian state policy for iran to become the head of power in the middle east calling shots, reestablish the persian to thein a similar way weight vladimir putin sees himself reestablishing the russian empire. and put the nuclear program on top of this. this is a country that poses a significant set of issues. charlie: notwithstanding the fact they just had an election and someone who might not be a moderate in our judgment but was more moderate than the other candidates. >> certainly more moderate than the hardliners. but this is not a moderate from our perspective. realize that this was an election, put every single candidate for president was approved by the su

coming from iran. saudi arabia promotes a new crown prince how could it affect the united states we'll take a look on this addition. to the politicking i mean holmes in for larry king this week saudi arabia's king solomon appointed his son mohamed bin solomon as crown prince replacing his nephew who who had been first in line to the throne what does this mean for the middle east and also for us saudi relations let's get an assessment from joel rubin he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama administration and is president of washington strategy group a global government affairs advisory firm joel joins me from our nation's capital welcome joel thank you great to be with you amy. so let me ask you about this apparently they can leapfrog over the crown prince and put his son in place in the next in the line of succession is this something that we should consider just sort of a blip internal saudi politics or is this an earthquake that could lead to real tension

we saw that in the iran deal. president obama's attitude for the middle east is that it was an arena populated by friends and potential friends. he went to a great extent to win over the potential friends like he ran at the expense of our -- friends, like iran, at the expense of israel. to do this, he had to deceive the israelis and the american public in a number of areas. if i had come to you in this forum in 2013, and told you that the consequence of president obama's policies would be the rise of the russian-iranian alliance across the middle east, the development of an iranian territorial corridor, the displacement of 10 million people in syria, the ejection -- injection into europe of millions of refugees, or over one million refugees. if i told you that iran would emerge from the deal with the right to enrich and reprocess itnium, and within 10 years, would have an unfettered program which the international community would look upon like that of any other country, that it would be an international law on pa

can make it very difficult in iran and of course they keep passing. tighter and tighter sanctions against iran and that that just like in cuba these policies support the hardliners you know this this doubling down on cuba who does that benefit the people who said inside cuba you can never trust the united states don't try to deal with them what is the increase in sanctions and it taking an increasingly hard line on iran that supports the exact same hardliner group in iran that says we don't want to have dealings with the united states we should have never had that iranian nuclear deal because we can't trust them and besides some people think of course we're going to need a nuclear weapon because that's the only thing that's going to keep us from being invaded why hasn't the u.s. done anything to north korea because they have nuclear weapons right right so so donald trump's i mean america first has has put cuba first the hard liners the hard hard line right wingers and put americans back in because what about our right to travel here i think you would

iran has accused saudi arabia and the us of being involved. it's now confirmed eight people died in the london bridge attack on saturday night. police searching for a frenchman — missing since the attack — have found a body in the river thames. xavier thomas was 45 — he'd been in london with his girlfriend, just for the weekend. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk.

in countering iran. these are destabilizing activities separate and apart from the iran nuclear agreement which to date the united states has the evidence that they have complied with the iran nuclear agreement. now, at the same time, we're facing an aggressive vladimir putin, and the russia bill that we passed yesterday and will come to final passage shortly strengthens our hand against putin's russia. the u.s. intelligence community has already made clear that putin attempted to interfere in our election, and let me tell you that didn't stop with the past election. that is continuing, and we better be ready for it next year in the 2018 elections, because putin and the g.r.u. have done all the groundwork. so -- but that's nothing new because he had done it in elections before in europe and has been doing it in elections right now as we saw in france, and it boom ranged on him -- and it boomeranged on him, thank goodness, and we will see an attempt on the german elections coming up. and the intelligence

after the misguided iran deal went into effect, iran resumed ballistic missile testing even though the u.n. security council resolution endorsing the nuclear deal called upon iran not to engage in these activities. most recently iran unsuccessfully tested a submarine launch missile in the strait of hormuz in may following ground-based missile tests in january and march. and of course, mr. president, many of those missiles have the range to reach targets not only throughout the middle east, but outside of it. mr. president, under the last administration, iranian belligerence was too often ignored or even rewarded. that needs to end now. we cannot afford to let iran continue to destabilize the middle east. we need to make it clear that the united states and its new leadership will not tolerate iranian aggression and the terrible human suffering that has resulted. and we need to reassure our allies, especially israel, our closest and most reliable ally in the middle east, that we are committed to standing with them against iranian threats. the countering iran's destabilizing activities ac

and iran launches missiles targeting militants in eastern syria in retaliation for the recent terror attacks into ran planes we'll talk about the ramifications of that. hi there very good morning for me kevin though in this is r.t. international it's monday the nineteenth of june we're starting in the u.k. again eight o'clock in the morning there where overnight at least one person has been killed and several injured in what prime minister to reserve may is calling a potential terrorist attack overnight a van drove into a crowd of pedestrians many of them believed to be worshippers leaving a mosque in north london. suddenly on my way home i hear the big noise the crash noise when i turned back i saw the the van hit the people and when i ran to the place i saw a lot of people all florrie the one dead and the other badly injured one of them and that the where the guy was under the van was seriously injured which if you took the whole load of the van. that the guy was all he's got it in is it because he was standing looking at the guy like this in the valley to hit him here that's what

rick: president trump said he want to take a tougher stance on iran. wouldn't this be the way to do that? >> if this report is correct, that would be tough to do if the secretary of defense opposes it. i don't think we should get lost in a tactical issue of do we attack today or tomorrow iranian-backed militias in syria. i think we need a larger iran strategy and post-isis strategy to put our friend in the region to deal with the threat the iranian-led axis poses. iran has long been the central banker of international terrorism and the iranian nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. despite statement from the state department, i think they are going on unobstructed. the destruction of isis is necessary to prevent them from recruiting terrorists around the world. right now the president has asked for it. and i don't think it exists. rick: we just saw the president reject a deal president trump made with cuba. what about the deal president trump made with iran. trump criticized it relentlessly. is this the next deal to fall? >> i certainly hope s

for geopolitical purposes because iran is trying to fight. the united states to impose its your money over the middle east. change of tone this summer's festival of football kicked off in the russian city is simply does burke's out of a lovely weather for two and the host speak new zealand in the opening match of the twenty seven team confederations cup so good start for russia than with more in the game plus all the latest in the tournament let's catch up with the guys at the. lots to be careful about here in the venice of the north there was a suitable victory for russia over new zealand in the opening match of the she's confederations cup alongside me a former superstar at liverpool must the villa striker stanley collymore stan let's start though with the action from match day one russia to new zealand no let's get the guns stand tall cause there were zero zero zero four is a very solid performance tried by the russian national team there's a lot of pressure on them coming into the game this is the second goal and quite simple topping as i