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00:00:22The latest news
00:00:24continues reactions in Iran to the defeat of Trump's allies in
00:00:28the congressional elections.
00:00:32President Trump to advise his deputy to prevent another
00:00:34attack. Democratic leaders' plan after
00:00:38winning the midterm elections in the US Congress. They say ending
00:00:42the war in Iran is one of their priorities.
00:00:44It is. The reaction of Iran's Ministry of Youth to
00:00:48the removal of the Adam and Eve dating app from Google Meta says
00:00:52that the registration of 13 and 14-year-old girls with the consent of families
00:00:56has been legal for marriage in Iran at this age.
00:01:02And the disclosure of the secrets of the espionage network against Hungarian citizens
00:01:05during communism. Secret police files were published after
00:01:09about four decades.
00:01:29Hello, Your Excellency.
00:01:34Following the Democrats' victory in the US midterm congressional
00:01:37elections, the leaders of this party say that ending the war
00:01:41with Iran will be one of the priorities of the House of Representatives and the Senate,
00:01:45but in Iran, there is still talk of preparing for the possibility of
00:01:49another attack from the US. Iranian officials consider themselves
00:01:52effective in the Democrats' victory, but they say there is no
00:01:56difference in the hostility of the two parties towards the Iranian government.
00:02:06are mostly against war with Iran, are now intoxicated by
00:02:10their victory in the midterm congressional elections.
00:02:13They are.
00:02:15But for now, on the other side of the world, in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz, nothing
00:02:19has changed. Last night, in two separate incidents,
00:02:23the Revolutionary Guards are still reporting attacks and incidents
00:02:27that are happening to oil tankers in the waters of the Persian Gulf and on the coasts of
00:02:30the Arab countries of the region. Today, the commander of
00:02:34the IRGC Ground Force visited the Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.
00:02:38He visited. His goal is to maintain readiness in
00:02:42the face of a possible US attack.
00:02:45The question everyone is asking now is whether Donald Trump
00:02:49still intends to attack Iran or not. He tasted
00:02:53the defeat of his party at a time when both
00:02:56intensive diplomatic negotiations to reach an
00:03:00agreement with Tehran were underway and military preparations
00:03:03for an attack on Iran. Now
00:03:06nothing is clear. The latest diplomatic news is
00:03:10that the Iranian Foreign Minister spoke with his counterpart in Oman.
00:03:13But only to this extent. Iranian officials
00:03:16feel victorious over the Republicans' defeat. Because they believe
00:03:20that by resisting the pressures of the Trump administration,
00:03:23they have turned most Americans away from him.
00:03:27Although the victory of the Democrats also, as stated in a message attributed to
00:03:31the Iranian leader, makes no difference to the Islamic Republic
00:03:34and he views the two ruling parties of that country with
00:03:38the same hostility. On
00:03:41the other hand, the deputy of Dan Trump, who formally admitted that the cause
00:03:44of the Republicans' defeat was the war with Iran, became the target of sarcasm
00:03:48and blame from Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who told
00:03:52him to go tell these things to your boss who has prepared himself for an attack on
00:03:56Iran. The Trump administration still has two years left.
00:04:39all eyes are on this party. Clive Myrie
00:04:42reports on the priorities and policies of the Democrats in
00:04:46the new season of confrontation with the Republicans over the next two
00:04:49years. He has paid.
00:04:51Everything goes to those who won.
00:04:56Their hope is American. A new
00:04:59era under Donald Trump.
00:05:01I am your representative.
00:05:05Hello Carolina
00:05:08North Carolina, Ohio chose unity and honor.
00:05:42The message that voters gave Democrats on Tuesday was that they are looking
00:05:46for leaders who can get things done.
00:05:50They need to deliver.
00:05:52With the power they now have, Democrats should not betray
00:05:56the trust of voters. They must address the crisis of the high cost of
00:05:59living. They must reform
00:06:03the broken US healthcare system. They must get to work and show
00:06:07the American people that they take the responsibility entrusted to them
00:06:10seriously. Is it?
00:06:37that people felt last night in one word,
00:06:41earthquake. It was an earthquake. If you don't like
00:06:45earthquakes, floods.
00:06:48Mahnoosh Pooyayi joins us from Washington. Mahnoosh, the Democrats were able to achieve
00:06:52a significant success. Since yesterday,
00:06:55we have witnessed faster reactions and stances. They said they
00:06:59want to address people's issues, including high prices
00:07:02and so on, as well as their concern about the war
00:07:06with Iran. How likely is it that they will actually
00:07:09succeed?
00:07:13The plans that the Democrats have, as you said,
00:07:16have been announced. The main issue is what difference
00:07:20they have in the short term and long
00:07:23term. There are almost two months left before
00:07:26the new Congress begins its work. In these
00:07:30two months, they can take advantage
00:07:34of the situation and prepare
00:07:37for the really important
00:07:41move they want to make against Mr.
00:07:44Trump's policies and
00:07:47from the decisions he has made regarding tariffs
00:07:51to the aid they can provide to the people in terms of
00:07:55health insurance or fuel subsidies
00:07:58to somewhat alleviate the effects
00:08:01of the price increases that have occurred in the short term.
00:08:05Because all the economists who are here
00:08:07generally agree
00:08:11that the situation that has arisen
00:08:14in the US due to the war is not something that
00:08:18will disappear anytime soon, and you can't just press a button
00:08:22overnight and make everything cheap again. Therefore,
00:08:25the Democrats' hands and the tools they have
00:08:28are limited. Naturally, in the field of war, it's
00:08:32pretty much the same. In these two months, they can still
00:08:36continue their resistance to prevent
00:08:39the approval of new funding that the Pentagon has been seeking
00:08:42for a long time. The last time
00:08:45Mr. Hecht, the US
00:08:48Secretary of Defense, came to Congress was in May.
00:08:52And he has not had a very good relationship
00:08:55with the members of Congress and
00:08:59has not shown much transparency.
00:09:02And this has led to his name
00:09:06being mentioned as the main victim
00:09:08due to the consequences of the midterm
00:09:13elections. Now we know that a Republican
00:09:16representative has also prepared a plan for his impeachment
00:09:19that he wants to present in the parliament
00:09:23on Monday. And how likely is it that such an event
00:09:26will happen and will it have any impact on the situation of the war with Iran?
00:09:29The discussion
00:09:33about Mr. Heckscher is actually
00:09:35one of the most overt
00:09:38and symbolic figures
00:09:41whose name is intertwined with the war. But Mr.
00:09:45Trump has repeatedly, even this morning,
00:09:48Thursday, in an interview he had with ABC,
00:09:52defended him and said that he will support
00:09:55him. Therefore, it seems that at least Mr. Trump has no intention
00:09:59of removing P. Text and can
00:10:03actually stand in the way of his impeachment
00:10:06and not accept its result,
00:10:09for example. But other names have also been mentioned.
00:10:13The Washington Post, in particular, has suggested
00:10:16that Mr. Trump might go for the dismissal of
00:10:19Admiral Cooper, who is currently managing the war
00:10:23in the region, or
00:10:26even General Genk Keane, the Chairman
00:10:29of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
00:10:33These names are being mentioned for those who
00:10:36may become victims of the
00:10:39consequences of the war. But what Mr. Trump will ultimately do
00:10:43about the war is another matter, because
00:10:46it's not a problem that can be
00:10:50solved with a button. Mr. Trump
00:10:53is very unpredictable. The American military is still
00:10:55ready
00:11:00in the region, and Mr. Trump has the possibility
00:11:03to launch an attack against
00:11:06Iran to show his victory
00:11:09and his decisiveness.
00:11:22Iran's Supreme National Security Council met with Russian President Vladimir Putin
00:11:25in Moscow. The Kremlin did not provide details
00:11:29on the content of their talks. It is reported
00:11:32that a senior Russian military official and one of Mr.
00:11:36Putin's aides were also present at this meeting. Mohsen Rezaee had also spoken
00:11:40with Putin by phone two days ago about developments in the Middle East.
00:11:43The British government has
00:11:47described the bomb threat to commercial flights in Europe as
00:11:51fake and sabotage, but said it takes all
00:11:55cases seriously. Following the latest round of threats, at least
00:11:5912 passenger flights were forced to make emergency landings
00:12:02or change course. Italian and French fighter jets escorted
00:12:06at least two planes until landing. Four flights
00:12:10also landed safely in Prague. No explosive materials were found
00:12:14on these planes. This is the second wave of similar threats
00:12:17in Europe this
00:12:18week.
00:12:22A group of Israeli settlers, in what they called
00:12:26secretly, seized eight houses in the occupied West Bank.
00:12:30They are members of a family of supporters
00:12:33of Israeli settlement expansion who have bought
00:12:36these houses. Reports indicate that armed members
00:12:40of this group injured a Palestinian. They are demanding the dismantling
00:12:44of the Oslo Accords, which define the areas under Israeli and
00:12:48Palestinian control. The United Nations has declared
00:12:51settlement construction in the occupied territories illegal.
00:12:58The Wall Street Journal, quoting informed sources, reported on
00:13:01negotiations between the Houthi rebels of Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
00:13:05According to the publication, this group, allied with Iran, demanded
00:13:0851 billion dollars in compensation and recognition of its rule
00:13:12over Yemen to end the conflict with
00:13:16Saudi Arabia. In recent weeks, the Houthis have repeatedly attacked oil facilities and
00:13:19some major airports in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia has retaliated
00:13:23with extensive attacks on the group's positions
00:13:26in Yemen. Our colleague, Nafiseh Kouhnavard,
00:13:29our senior Middle East correspondent from Beirut, Lebanon, is with us.
00:13:33Nafiseh, please explain more about what the issue is and whether
00:13:36the Houthis have had any reaction
00:13:39so far or not?
00:13:42Parizad,
00:13:45this is in a report that the Wall Street Journal
00:13:49has published, quoting informed sources from
00:13:53these talks.
00:13:55And it is claimed
00:13:59in it, quoting these sources,
00:14:02that the negotiations took place at
00:14:05the request of Saudi Arabia. That is, Saudi Arabia,
00:14:09Saudi officials sent a message to the Houthis and asked
00:14:12them to say what they want
00:14:15in exchange for stopping their attacks.
00:14:19However, as of this moment, neither the Houthis
00:14:23nor even the Saudi government
00:14:27has made any statement
00:14:30and has even not responded to the Wall Street Journal's
00:14:33questions. But previously,
00:14:37at the peak of the Houthi attacks, some reports
00:14:40were published stating that Tehran had also
00:14:44proposed to the Houthis that it is possible to negotiate
00:14:47with Saudi Arabia over
00:14:49the cost of stopping
00:14:52these attacks.
00:14:58However, this point has not been confirmed
00:15:01by Iranian officials,
00:15:04but immediately after these reports
00:15:08were raised, senior Houthi
00:15:11officials appeared on social media and
00:15:15on television and gave this
00:15:19message that they do not take orders from anyone
00:15:22and that they will stop their attacks or advances
00:15:26in Yemen only when it is in the interest of this group
00:15:29and when this blockade and attacks that have continued
00:15:33against this group for years are stopped.
00:15:35There are many details in this report,
00:15:39but it seems that even according to
00:15:42these sources, behind-the-scenes negotiations have also taken place,
00:15:46and the price has been brought down, but there have also been concerns
00:15:49from Saudi Arabia that if it agrees to
00:15:53pay such a billion-dollar
00:15:56cost, it might become
00:15:59an excuse for the Houthis to launch other attacks later
00:16:03and in return, according to them,
00:16:07they will get nothing.
00:16:14Saudi Arabia has done so far, and the siege that has been imposed
00:16:18for years against the areas under
00:16:20the control of this group, which has,
00:16:24of course, plunged many of the people in these
00:16:27areas into complete poverty
00:16:31and put a lot of pressure on them, despite
00:16:35this, the Houthis' advance on the ground
00:16:38continues. Parizad, and Saudi Arabia, Nafiseh, we know that it was trying
00:16:42to gain regional and international support to confront
00:16:45the Houthis. How far have these efforts by Saudi Arabia reached
00:16:48so far?
00:16:51That Mecca Pact, which indirectly included
00:16:55Egypt, Egypt,
00:16:59Turkey, and Pakistan, has so far emphasized
00:17:02that their support for Saudi Arabia
00:17:05will not involve entering a ground war
00:17:09or direct war with the Houthis,
00:17:12and they will specifically protect the territories
00:17:15of Saudi Arabia. They will protect
00:17:19them, meaning that they will probably, for example, strengthen
00:17:22their radar systems or provide more
00:17:26consultations to Saudi Arabia.
00:17:29This is what they have officially announced so far, and the evidence
00:17:33also shows that this is the case. But at the peak of this election,
00:17:42Saudi Arabia visited. The President of Syria. Because Saudi Arabia
00:17:46had also asked Syria for help for ground forces,
00:17:50and as I heard from sources close to
00:17:53the Syrian government and informed
00:17:56sources of these negotiations,
00:17:59it was decided that some of the foreign
00:18:02forces that are part of the Syrian forces, including
00:18:06the Uighurs, for example,
00:18:08would go and protect
00:18:12the Saudi borders. However, it seems that these
00:18:15groups did not accept this offer to leave
00:18:19Syria and go to Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless,
00:18:22Syria is negotiating to provide ground support,
00:18:26which is what Saudi Arabia needs most,
00:18:39from Google and Meta. Iran's Ministry of Sports has said that marriage counseling centers
00:18:42must obtain a license from the Islamic Propaganda Organization
00:18:46to operate. Bahman Abdi said that the registration of girls over
00:18:5013 years old in marriage counseling systems
00:18:53with the consent of the family based on the laws
00:18:55of the Islamic Republic is not considered a legal violation.
00:18:59According to this official of the Ministry of Sports, marriage counseling centers
00:19:02have been advised to increase the minimum age for admitting girls
00:19:06to over 15 years old. Hossein Ghazian, sociologist and
00:19:09social science researcher from Washington, is with us. Mr.
00:19:13Ghazian, how is it possible that in defense of
00:19:16the registration of girls over 13, 14 years old,
00:19:20the issue is raised that this age is legal for marriage, instead of referring
00:19:24to issues such as child rights or the problems
00:19:27that child marriage will create
00:19:30for these individuals in the future? In fact, we are dealing
00:19:33with two
00:19:36different views or approaches here. One
00:19:39view, which is traditional, dates back
00:19:42to the pre-modern era, and that is
00:19:46that a child is just someone who is younger
00:19:49and there is no significant difference between
00:19:52them and adults. Consequently, since there is no
00:19:56different entity, their rights and responsibilities are not
00:19:59different from adults. But childhood is
00:20:03a relatively new concept in modern
00:20:06life. Through this concept, we
00:20:10attribute specific rights and responsibilities to a child,
00:20:14that is, someone who is under a certain age. Therefore,
00:20:17the pre-modern view essentially has no legal discussion. It has
00:20:21foundations based on ideas that have come from Islam here
00:20:25and wants to defend them. Here, the discussion of rights
00:20:28and responsibilities is not considered, whereas in the modern
00:20:32view, we are actually faced with the fact
00:20:35that a child does not have the ability to choose
00:20:38based on responsibility. Consequently, they do not have
00:20:42the rights that adults have, but they have exclusive
00:20:46rights that adults cannot decide on. Rather, these rights exist
00:20:50intrinsically for children. Well, when these two views meet,
00:20:54you no longer see any trace of legal discussions,
00:20:57and you still see the defense of those ideas.
00:21:01On the other hand, we see that you mentioned that a child does not have
00:21:05the ability to choose based on responsibility. Officials say
00:21:08that because the parents of these children have given
00:21:11consent, there is no problem with this, whereas
00:21:15in many cases, it is the family itself
00:21:18that is the source of pressure on the child.
00:21:22Yes, that's right, but the point is that
00:21:25parents, while they are responsible for
00:21:28the care of children, cannot decide
00:21:31on their rights on their behalf. These rights are given
00:21:35to the child because they are a child, not because
00:21:39they are the child of someone who can then
00:21:43make decisions about them. Therefore,
00:21:46the decisions of the father and mother or parents
00:21:49in general cannot negate
00:21:52the rights of children. But as you also
00:21:56mentioned, the unfavorable economic situation, especially
00:21:59in marginal areas, as well as the issue of tradition
00:22:03and culture and the pressure it puts on families,
00:22:06has become a factor that essentially, as I said, also negates
00:22:10the issue of rights here. The guiding ideas
00:22:13that the government has and implements through these
00:22:17so-called legal regulations allow them to escape
00:22:21these economic and traditional pressures and marry
00:22:24off children in the tens of thousands
00:22:28under 13 and hundreds of thousands under 18.
00:22:31Mr. Bahman Abdi, an official from the Ministry of Sports
00:22:35who spoke, said that this action by the government
00:22:38actually prevents illegal places on
00:22:42social networks from trying to do something similar. Do you think
00:22:45that when the government gives
00:22:48such a license to such a system, how much it opens
00:22:52the way for child marriage? In fact, it opens the way and makes
00:22:56it more legal. This is like filtering. The government itself
00:22:59filters, then says, "Come and buy our filter breaker."
00:23:02It's the same here. It says, "We have prohibited
00:23:05this in other ways. Just come and do this
00:23:09on the website we provide you." That is, it not
00:23:13only puts a stronger legal stamp on that
00:23:16legally wrong act, but it also takes
00:23:20economic and systemic control, so to speak, and does not
00:23:24allow others to interfere in this regard. It seems that this is
00:23:27more due to the continuation of control that the government wants
00:23:31to have over all aspects of life, including
00:23:35marriage and divorce, and also child marriage.
00:23:38That's right, but when the government gives it a license,
00:23:42and the government has also given a license for children to get
00:23:45married, therefore, we see that thousands
00:23:49of children, especially girls, get
00:23:52married every year, and child
00:24:07We know that today
00:24:10demonstrations have resumed again after
00:24:13five labor unions in France
00:24:17called for a one-day general strike.
00:24:41Widespread protests are underway in France. High school
00:24:45students and
00:24:47protesters against the rising cost of living
00:24:51have also joined these protests.
00:24:54By 1 PM local
00:24:58time today, it was announced that more than 250,000
00:25:01people in nearly 70 cities in
00:25:04France took to the streets. These images we are
00:25:08seeing are from Paris today,
00:25:11the capital
00:25:13of France, and labor unions have promised to
00:25:17take the wave of protests that began in March
00:25:21in protest against the unfavorable conditions and lack of facilities
00:25:25in high schools to a new
00:25:27stage.
00:25:34Tens of thousands of files related to the secret police during
00:25:37communism in Hungary have been released. These files reveal
00:25:41a network of informants who spied on citizens.
00:25:45Peter Magyar, the Prime Minister of Hungary,
00:25:49said this action is intended to.
00:25:54However, this decision has opponents. Nick Thorpe
00:25:58reports from Budapest. Thirty-six
00:26:01years after the fall of communism, secrets have been revealed.
00:26:05The entire archive, including the names of 60,000 secret police
00:26:08informants, has been made publicly available online.
00:26:12Previously, each individual could only search for their own file,
00:26:16but now anyone's name can be found.
00:26:19I think this can be an opportunity
00:26:22to learn more about people and face the past more deeply,
00:26:26not only on an individual level, but also on a societal
00:26:28level.
00:26:31The release of this file was one of the election promises of
00:26:34Peter Magyar, the Prime Minister of Hungary.
00:26:38These wounds should not be hidden or swept under the rug, but rather
00:26:42we should talk about them so that a collective
00:26:44process of healing and reconciliation
00:26:47can begin. There were many reasons why
00:26:51some agreed to spy on their family members and friends.
00:26:54Some were subjected to pressure and threats. Some
00:26:58initially agreed but later failed
00:27:01to follow through. A minority also enthusiastically
00:27:05informed. One of their targets
00:27:09was a priest in the underground church.
00:27:12Ignaz Kray, whom dozens of fellow believers
00:27:15informed on. But he opposes the public release
00:27:19of the archives, fearing that this action will cause
00:27:22division and distrust instead of reconciliation.
00:27:25This would have been good 35, 36 years ago. But
00:27:29now it's suspicious. Why should we do this now when maybe
00:29:59we ourselves had sheep when the lakes