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[00:00:01] Behind the names
[00:00:02] of these two teachers lay two lives filled with hope and
[00:00:05] attachment,
[00:00:06] of women who lived like millions of others, yet gave meaning to
[00:00:10] self-sacrifice in the face of tragedy. Days after the
[00:00:14] disaster, among Farid's few remaining keepsakes, a short
[00:00:17] will was found alongside pair of earrings she had given to her mother
[00:00:21] before the incident, as if her heart sense this journey
[00:00:25] had no return. Fatima's family to remembers her with grand dreams
[00:00:29] and heart. overflowing with dedication to serve,
[00:00:33] today no trace remains
[00:00:34] of these classrooms or the laughter filled courtyard, yet the names
[00:00:38] of Fatima Shahdadi, Farid Mokhtari and dozens of other
[00:00:42] teachers who fell victim to these devastating attacks have
[00:00:46] become symbols of humanity's endurance against the
[00:00:49] of violence of war, educators who embrace death to gift their
[00:00:54] a students the right to live and
[00:00:55] learn.
[00:01:02] a
[00:01:03] of
[00:01:16] of
[00:01:23] of
[00:01:27] of Good evening from France to Greece. and beyond Europe's
[00:01:31] of streets are witnessing new wave of demonstrations as
[00:01:34] workers, students and trade unions challenge their
[00:01:38] governments over rising living costs, stagnant wages, unaffordable
[00:01:42] housing and
[00:01:44] of deteriorating of public services, but these domestic grievances are
[00:01:48] unfolding against much wider geopolitical backdrop. the
[00:01:52] US lead war against Iran, the disruption to energy markets
[00:01:55] and maritime trade through the straight of hermus have
[00:01:59] added. to these economic pressures facing European
[00:02:02] households compounded by the war in Ukraine and by
[00:02:06] domestic policies that have themselves fuel the
[00:02:09] protest sweeping the continent. French president Emmanuel
[00:02:13] Macron has acknowledged the impact
[00:02:16] of these international developments on fuel prices even as European
[00:02:20] governments continue to increase defense spending in response
[00:02:24] to growing security concerns. In France, more than
[00:02:27] 600 thousand people have taken... into the
[00:02:30] of streets and nationwide mobilization, while students and
[00:02:34] teachers increase are demanding better funded
[00:02:38] public education and relief from the rising cost of
[00:02:41] living, so are ordinary Europeans increasingly
[00:02:45] paying the price of geopolitical conflicts and security
[00:02:49] policies through higher energy bills, strain
[00:02:52] of public services
[00:02:53] of and tighter household budgets, and are governments
[00:02:57] addressing these pressures or are they? their
[00:03:00] populations to shoulder the consequences. That's our
[00:03:04] focus tonight with our
[00:03:05] guests.
[00:03:10] I've joined us Jonathan of anser, journalist and
[00:03:14] political analyst joining us from
[00:03:16] London.
[00:03:20] And also joining us is Mahmoud Raf, a president of International
[00:03:24] of Institute for Strategic joining us from
[00:03:27] of Paris. Gentlemen, both of you, thank you. much for your time tonight,
[00:03:31] I'm
[00:03:31] in going to begin with Mr. Of uh, thank
[00:03:35] you, and let me begin with the central issue here. We have
[00:03:39] had more than 600 thousand people who have reportedly taken to the streets
[00:03:42] across France, we have had similar protests
[00:03:46] nationwide in other countries uh such as Greece today.
[00:03:50] Are we witnessing a broader crisis is my
[00:03:54] question across Europe's economic and political model
[00:03:58] here? Yes, thanks for having me,
[00:04:01] yeah, what is happening in in Greece
[00:04:05] and France, and especially
[00:04:08] France, a confrontation
[00:04:12] of two interconnected
[00:04:15] prices, and growing public
[00:04:18] anger over living standards and public services
[00:04:21] and the divided political
[00:04:24] system struggling to agree on how to
[00:04:28] repair the country. finances, i'm basing
[00:04:31] my my titties of france now, and the
[00:04:35] and and and what began as a student protest
[00:04:39] over education has developed into a broader
[00:04:42] confrontation over wages, inequality, the cost
[00:04:46] of living and and public confidence in
[00:04:49] governments.
[00:04:54] mr. thank you so much for your time tonight as well, wanted to put the same
[00:04:58] question to you, we have had more than 600 thous
[00:05:02] people that have been on the streets in the country of France, the
[00:05:05] city that you live in, Paris has also
[00:05:08] been a one
[00:05:08] of the pivotal places that these protests have taken place.
[00:05:12] the same protest we have had in other countries across
[00:05:16] Europe, what do you think is the root cause these
[00:05:19] protests and what do you think is adding more pressure to
[00:05:22] it, more pressure to
[00:05:25] it?
[00:05:31] it seems that we are having issue hearing your voice, mr.
[00:05:35] rafat, i can hear you very well, can you hear me? yes, well
[00:05:38] let's start by saying or putting a live on
[00:05:42] the fact that the rebel is a french
[00:05:45] specificity, french are known with being
[00:05:49] rebel since long centuries, not only
[00:05:52] decades, and they always consider
[00:05:56] the governor as the opposition, mean the
[00:05:59] population who elected this governor, they once he
[00:06:03] takes the power, they start to treat him
[00:06:07] as opposition at the opposite side, and from here
[00:06:11] they start to fight. to struggle against the well and the
[00:06:15] plans the governor, whatever to be the governor going
[00:06:19] to, and we witnessed that even in the historic
[00:06:22] leadership like, general charl de goal, so
[00:06:26] what happened recently that the government did did
[00:06:30] not lessen to the minimum of requests, the minimum of
[00:06:34] requests started last september was by students
[00:06:38] from high schools calling for
[00:06:41] improving their schools, their laboratories
[00:06:45] inside the schools and improving the
[00:06:48] number of students each class,
[00:06:52] etc. small or minor requests, the government did not
[00:06:55] listen to that, and that made these students to
[00:06:59] rise up their volume of protests and from
[00:07:03] her joined them several other social class
[00:07:06] and majority of people joined them
[00:07:10] are the middle social class. of workers
[00:07:13] of life cost, well we know that
[00:07:17] the policies of president Macron
[00:07:19] concentrated so much on the
[00:07:23] which we can call it economic opening to bring
[00:07:26] investments, but investors especially for
[00:07:30] investors in the conflict or the clash that
[00:07:34] president Macron administration could not harmonize
[00:07:37] between the french natural
[00:07:41] functioning how? to they function, the society of more than
[00:07:45] 80 million, around 80 million
[00:07:48] persons and how to break investments, investments is
[00:07:52] essential requirement for any prosper or to develop your
[00:07:56] economy, but he could not to develop your economy, but he could
[00:08:00] not harmonize, maybe because he's coming from
[00:08:03] very high class banking background, which is rocheld to work
[00:08:07] for rocheld before to present himself as
[00:08:11] presidential candidate for a side. so he doesn't care about
[00:08:14] anything except numbers, and these numbers, the
[00:08:18] French mentality doesn't accept it, doesn't accept to be the leader
[00:08:22] or to be led only by numbers, they need to be considered
[00:08:26] as differently by the level of education, the level
[00:08:30] of social care and the level of social assistance in
[00:08:34] case of problems of work, the conditions of work, the
[00:08:38] conditions of life, the life the the price to be to make
[00:08:43] products, especially the essential products available everyone
[00:08:46] in the society, that President Macron did not show a
[00:08:50] good understanding for these points and from her is coming the
[00:08:54] clash, and the point is the administration of
[00:08:58] Macron, with all ministers of internal affairs he
[00:09:01] nominated, they all believe that they can break down
[00:09:05] the street through force, force can never can
[00:09:09] never break such society to train for more than
[00:09:13] 200 years for rebels, so from her it's coming the
[00:09:16] clash, that's right.
[00:09:20] Jonathan, when it comes to uh the
[00:09:23] major international dimensions to this crisis is my uh
[00:09:27] next questions to you, um, there is this crisis in west
[00:09:31] Asia where the strato for mouse is closed by the Iranian armed
[00:09:35] forces, we have the strat of bob and manda which is at the very least severely
[00:09:39] disrupted by the yemeny armed forces, the Ukraine war,
[00:09:43] uh in eastern Europe is also affecting what is happening
[00:09:46] inside Europe and then the budgetary
[00:09:49] priorities that these governments have inside Europe is uh adding
[00:09:53] more fuel to this fire uh your thoughts on what the
[00:09:57] government should be doing as of now to address these
[00:10:00] issues? well
[00:10:03] they what is happening in the straight of
[00:10:07] homos and the other parts of that gulf region
[00:10:11] um? Uh, in my opinion is
[00:10:13] beyond um the control of
[00:10:17] this European governments, France, Greece and so and so
[00:10:21] forth. Okay, I mean um, the problem.
[00:10:25] the that geopolitical situation there in the gulf and
[00:10:28] has precipitated the increase
[00:10:31] in the oil prices and therefore it's a
[00:10:35] effect on the cost of living across the world even in
[00:10:39] america we have when we had
[00:10:43] this mid terms you know in the
[00:10:47] in the US on Tuesday right and the reason why
[00:10:51] the the Republican government sorry party lost is one
[00:10:55] is the war against Iran, okay, so it has had an
[00:10:59] effect everywhere across Africa, in Europe and so on so
[00:11:03] forth, and so the the the the the governments in
[00:11:06] Europe or in other places need
[00:11:09] to um, readjust, and
[00:11:13] recalibrate their budgets and other award
[00:11:17] pay rises across the board or whatever, but award pay
[00:11:20] rises would inevitably lead to higher
[00:11:24] inflation. so to me
[00:11:25] it is a problem that these governments are
[00:11:29] facing and they need to sit down carefully
[00:11:32] and um
[00:11:33] and and and see how best they can address the situation.
[00:11:37] look, we take what happened yesterday in the french
[00:11:40] national assembly where
[00:11:42] you know the the MPs there
[00:11:45] rejected the revenue session the government
[00:11:49] proposed 2027 budget by
[00:11:52] 458 votes to none with. only two
[00:11:55] abstentions, mean that's
[00:11:57] you know is in itself is an extraordinary
[00:12:01] result, although it is important to explain that the
[00:12:05] lawmakers were voting a heavily amended version
[00:12:09] the the budget, so the government must now have
[00:12:12] to navigate a difficult legislative
[00:12:16] process while responding to the widespread public
[00:12:20] disconent.
[00:12:25] Uh, Mr., uh, Raffa, the question that I wanted
[00:12:29] to put to you is uh, regarding the what,
[00:12:33] Mr. Macron said himself, he acknowledged that the wars in Ukraine and
[00:12:37] West Asia, along with uh, disruption in the straight of
[00:12:41] Moose and also the Bob and Mandab straight are directly affecting the fuel
[00:12:45] prices and also the everyday life uh in in the
[00:12:49] continent of Europe, but let me put it this way, if they
[00:12:52] agree that this is what causing... one the
[00:12:55] issues or many different issues in the continent of Europe,
[00:12:59] why are they still helping the US carry out more and more
[00:13:03] aggression against different countries in west asia, particularly you
[00:13:07] speaking Iran?
[00:13:10] well, let's admit at this
[00:13:14] stage, after four years, almost five years
[00:13:17] the the war of Ukraine, uh,
[00:13:20] this war caused big dilemma all over Europe, but mostly...
[00:13:25] impacted are the three countries, France, Germany and
[00:13:29] UK. Link to what's running in the straight
[00:13:33] of hormos at the moment and the war running,
[00:13:36] well, I don't think there will be any war anymore, this is another thing, this
[00:13:40] is my evaluation or my situation assessment, there
[00:13:44] will not be any war anymore after
[00:13:47] the losing the Republican Party for
[00:13:51] Congress majority, I don't think that will not be. of
[00:13:55] this war so what the global economic
[00:13:58] situation is impacting and
[00:14:01] sorry the global
[00:14:04] economics, the global economic situation in Europe is
[00:14:07] highly impacted, but lots
[00:14:11] of voices now, especially from the left and the right wings,
[00:14:15] mean not the not the the the extraordinary
[00:14:19] people, the ordinary people are rising their voice
[00:14:22] strongly and very loudly say: this war
[00:14:26] and supporting this war since the beginning was a big mistake
[00:14:30] because now got back on europe economically
[00:14:33] with this horrible situation everywhere in Europe now is
[00:14:37] impacted negatively on the economic level
[00:14:40] meanwhile there is big threat to Europe
[00:14:44] now and that appearing in the
[00:14:47] warning more than
[00:14:50] 15 European government as well as the European Union.
[00:14:56] issued to the population that to to to save
[00:15:00] food, to save water, etc., that means there is
[00:15:03] evaluation or there is situation assessment, there is
[00:15:07] risk of war, and this war can be nuclear war as well, at least
[00:15:11] the nuclear can be used,
[00:15:13] especially with the
[00:15:16] the the threats of moscow, the clear threats that moscow had
[00:15:20] addressed to London few weeks ago, that about
[00:15:24] supporting... Ukraine, so there are lots and more and more
[00:15:28] of voices are getting rising now themselves
[00:15:31] loudly saying this war and supporting this war was a big
[00:15:35] mistake we committed in Europe. from her the
[00:15:39] some politicians and the politicians of administration like
[00:15:43] administration of like uh president macron they tried to
[00:15:47] use this war as hanger to
[00:15:50] hang the phenomenon
[00:15:54] we have now the problem we have now but since the big but that
[00:15:57] increase the anger at the street because the street and these
[00:16:01] protesters would rise the question in front of using
[00:16:05] this as hanger who who started this, who
[00:16:09] financed this, who armed this war for more than
[00:16:13] five years, that especially the weapon
[00:16:16] industry exhaust any budget, exhaust
[00:16:19] any, it's not financed by third part, I mean
[00:16:23] europe one financed and armed
[00:16:27] Ukraine, it was from the real European budget, it's not like for
[00:16:31] example, the war in Yemen, it's financed by Saudi
[00:16:34] Arabia or by Emirates budget, It's coming this
[00:16:38] time from the real pocket of Europeans and from her
[00:16:42] Europeans are more aware of this dilemma than
[00:16:45] other issues on our planet. I
[00:16:49] think and I believe also the closure of
[00:16:53] Strate of hormos played a big role in the
[00:16:56] economic problems in Europe and I think
[00:16:59] also in my private
[00:17:02] assessment or my private situation
[00:17:06] assessment, I think... 'Iran will continue handling a hand
[00:17:10] on hermos straight, which will make on the long term, when I say
[00:17:14] long term that means next five years for example, more economic
[00:17:17] troubles if there is no real compromise now between
[00:17:21] Europe and Iran even if United
[00:17:24] States is not involved that, I'm going to ask you about what a
[00:17:28] future holds when it comes to the war of aggression against Iran
[00:17:32] and also Europe, and that is my next question to
[00:17:35] Jonathan, what do you think is going to happen
[00:17:39] to these protests? do you think that governments are going to find
[00:17:43] a short-term solution uh or address the
[00:17:47] symptoms at the release at the beginning or are these protests
[00:17:51] going to lead
[00:17:52] somewhere? listen, mean
[00:17:56] the government, any responsible government cannot
[00:17:59] let no protest like what is going on in france go on
[00:18:03] forever, they need to um...
[00:18:07] find find number one you mention the symptoms, they need to
[00:18:11] first address the symptoms okay, a shorter
[00:18:15] measure and then afterwards may be go down to the
[00:18:18] actual cause
[00:18:20] you know of this um
[00:18:24] sentiments, this this this
[00:18:27] protest, okay, but privately i
[00:18:31] believe that the whole protest, i believe has been
[00:18:35] hijacked and by some
[00:18:39] maybe some either right-wing or left-wing
[00:18:42] extremists, especially at the right wing extremists, who
[00:18:45] wants to maybe make this macron government so
[00:18:49] unpopular, macron government is is think a central left government or
[00:18:53] so right, buse the right wing hasn't been
[00:18:57] in power in France for for very long time and maybe
[00:19:01] they see this as their chance to gain power in
[00:19:05] the elections next year because "I saw some
[00:19:08] clips
[00:19:09] of where some protesters were speaking German,
[00:19:13] others were speaking pure English. I live in the UK, so I know an
[00:19:17] authentic British accent, and
[00:19:19] I was speak pure English. I mean, how do you find a German or an English
[00:19:23] protester, you know, in France, protested against the
[00:19:26] government, so I believe that they were, there is be
[00:19:30] hijack by some extremis just to make this government look
[00:19:33] so bad, look so popular, in preparation."
[00:19:37] next spots, but having said all this, the government will need
[00:19:41] to address the symptoms right, to stop this
[00:19:44] protest, and number two, after the sympts have been addressed, go
[00:19:48] down and examine the underlying causes
[00:19:51] right, and find permanent solutions to
[00:19:54] them. Mr. Raff odd, I'm going to give
[00:19:58] the final thoughts to you, we have less than a minutes, what do you think is
[00:20:02] going to happen to these protests in the next coming months, are they going
[00:20:06] to lead anywhere? Well, I think they
[00:20:10] will continue until elections, presidential elections
[00:20:13] of France next April, May, and
[00:20:17] I believe they will impact strongly this
[00:20:20] elections, these elections, which means we would
[00:20:23] expect President Macron to get
[00:20:26] out from the Elise, House of
[00:20:30] Eliz, with like
[00:20:34] big limitation, and the new president. who
[00:20:38] comes, I expect that will consider that and the new
[00:20:41] administration will strongly consider what's running on the ground
[00:20:44] today in order not to prolongate and to make a
[00:20:48] civil war and France which some are calling with their
[00:20:52] expectation that there can be real civil war or we are close
[00:20:56] to civil war in France i think it's more to be addressed for
[00:21:00] next presidential elections april may 27
[00:21:03] thank you gentlemen both of you uh those were
[00:21:07] jonathan of anser journalists and political analysts join us from the city of
[00:21:11] London and Mahmoud Reford President of International Institute for
[00:21:14] Strategic Affairs join us from the city of Paris Thank you both
[00:21:17] again and that brings. This is the end of this edition of our
[00:21:21] spotlight program. Thank you for joining us and
[00:21:23] bye-bye.
[00:21:40] Along the shores, the Persian golf stands Delv, city
[00:21:44] where history and resistance run
[00:21:46] deep.
[00:21:51] It was here the rais Ali del Vari rose against British forces
[00:21:55] during the first world war, becoming a symbol of southern Iran's
[00:21:58] struggle to defend its
[00:21:59] homeland.
[00:22:04] More than a century later, another son of Tangaston, commander
[00:22:08] Alira Tangsidi, carried that legacy into the modern
[00:22:12] era. Two
[00:22:15] generations, one Persian Gulf, one enduring spirit
[00:22:19] of resist.
[00:23:55] When Washington wants to finance its preambitions, it sells
[00:23:59] government bonds, but behind the illusion of endless American
[00:24:02] spending lies a mounting crisis in financial
[00:24:06] markets. Today, as 10-year bond yields hover around
[00:24:09] 4.7%, and national debt surpasses
[00:24:13] 40 trillion dollars, the United States faces a
[00:24:17] compounding economic nightmare. I leader. and
[00:24:20] this is a
[00:24:21] nutshell.
[00:24:56] To understand why rising bond yields threaten to
[00:24:59] paralyze Washington, we have to look at how government debt
[00:25:03] functions in the secondary
[00:25:04] market.
[00:25:09] When demand for US debt drops due to fears of
[00:25:13] persistent inflation and fiscal instability, investors sell off
[00:25:17] bonds below face value, driving effective. yields
[00:25:20] upward. Since 2022, the Federal Reserve has actively
[00:25:24] dumped its bond holdings under quantitative tightening, while major
[00:25:28] international holders lose interest in holding dollar debt. To attract
[00:25:31] buyers for new debts, the US treasury is forced to offer
[00:25:35] increasingly expensive interest rates, creating a vicious cycle of
[00:25:39] skyrocketing borrowing
[00:25:40] costs.
[00:25:51] This surge in borrowing cost directly threatens to paralyze the
[00:25:55] US federal budget. Interest payments on the national debt
[00:25:59] have already surpassed the entire American defense button.
[00:26:03] leaving virtually no room for public spending or domestic
[00:26:07] infrastructure.
[00:26:12] as old debts matures and gets rolled over at higher rates, the
[00:26:16] US government is forced to spend trillions simply servicing
[00:26:20] interest payments. in the short and medium term, this means higher
[00:26:24] mortgage and credit costs for working families, reduced corporate
[00:26:27] investments and rising unemployment. in the long term, high yields
[00:26:31] drain capital. away from productive industries, locking the American
[00:26:35] economy into chronic recession and erosion of dollar
[00:26:38] dominance.
[00:26:47] This financial vulnerability makes Washington's military aggression against
[00:26:51] Iran one the most reckless strategic blunders in
[00:26:55] modern history. Imperialist wars in
[00:26:58] Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan loaded trillions onto the... american
[00:27:02] debt burden. Waging an unprovoked war against resilient nation like
[00:27:06] Iran while drowning in $40 trillion dollars of debt strips Washington
[00:27:10] of its economic buffer. A military failure against Iran would
[00:27:13] shatter international confidence in American power, accelerating the
[00:27:17] global abandonment the dollar and triggering catastrophic domestic
[00:27:21] inflation.
[00:27:28] The martered leader the Islamic Revolution, Ayatullah Ali Kham.
[00:27:32] consistently pointed out that the era of western economic and military
[00:27:36] intimidation has come to an end. Washington cannot
[00:27:40] wage endless foreign wars, while its financial
[00:27:44] foundation collapses under the weight of rising yields. The
[00:27:47] economic data is clear, the US establishment is drowning
[00:27:51] in its own death trap, and no amount of political
[00:27:55] propaganda can hide the crummling state of its paper
[00:27:58] empire.
[00:29:30] Top stories here on Presty. IRGC's aerospace force
[00:29:34] successfully grounds two more American reconnaissance drones over Ash island
[00:29:38] in southern Iran. Iran's top security official delivers
[00:29:42] leaders message to the Russian president as Washington's threats against Tehran
[00:29:46] escalate.
[00:29:52] And a Canadian Prime as it presents a new budget to reduce reliance on the USA
[00:29:56] saying the two countries will never return to their old
[00:29:59] relationship.
[00:30:15] hello everyone and welcome to press tv world news, our
[00:30:19] top story, the islamic revolution guards course said it's a aerospace uh