Google Speech-to-Text API Automatic Transcription (Chirp). Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.
00:00:01Behind the names
00:00:02of these two teachers lay two lives filled with hope and
00:00:05attachment,
00:00:06of women who lived like millions of others, yet gave meaning to
00:00:10self-sacrifice in the face of tragedy. Days after the
00:00:14disaster, among Farid's few remaining keepsakes, a short
00:00:17will was found alongside pair of earrings she had given to her mother
00:00:21before the incident, as if her heart sense this journey
00:00:25had no return. Fatima's family to remembers her with grand dreams
00:00:29and heart. overflowing with dedication to serve,
00:00:33today no trace remains
00:00:34of these classrooms or the laughter filled courtyard, yet the names
00:00:38of Fatima Shahdadi, Farid Mokhtari and dozens of other
00:00:42teachers who fell victim to these devastating attacks have
00:00:46become symbols of humanity's endurance against the
00:00:49of violence of war, educators who embrace death to gift their
00:00:54a students the right to live and
00:00:55learn.
00:01:02a
00:01:03of
00:01:16of
00:01:23of
00:01:27of Good evening from France to Greece. and beyond Europe's
00:01:31of streets are witnessing new wave of demonstrations as
00:01:34workers, students and trade unions challenge their
00:01:38governments over rising living costs, stagnant wages, unaffordable
00:01:42housing and
00:01:44of deteriorating of public services, but these domestic grievances are
00:01:48unfolding against much wider geopolitical backdrop. the
00:01:52US lead war against Iran, the disruption to energy markets
00:01:55and maritime trade through the straight of hermus have
00:01:59added. to these economic pressures facing European
00:02:02households compounded by the war in Ukraine and by
00:02:06domestic policies that have themselves fuel the
00:02:09protest sweeping the continent. French president Emmanuel
00:02:13Macron has acknowledged the impact
00:02:16of these international developments on fuel prices even as European
00:02:20governments continue to increase defense spending in response
00:02:24to growing security concerns. In France, more than
00:02:27600 thousand people have taken... into the
00:02:30of streets and nationwide mobilization, while students and
00:02:34teachers increase are demanding better funded
00:02:38public education and relief from the rising cost of
00:02:41living, so are ordinary Europeans increasingly
00:02:45paying the price of geopolitical conflicts and security
00:02:49policies through higher energy bills, strain
00:02:52of public services
00:02:53of and tighter household budgets, and are governments
00:02:57addressing these pressures or are they? their
00:03:00populations to shoulder the consequences. That's our
00:03:04focus tonight with our
00:03:05guests.
00:03:10I've joined us Jonathan of anser, journalist and
00:03:14political analyst joining us from
00:03:16London.
00:03:20And also joining us is Mahmoud Raf, a president of International
00:03:24of Institute for Strategic joining us from
00:03:27of Paris. Gentlemen, both of you, thank you. much for your time tonight,
00:03:31I'm
00:03:31in going to begin with Mr. Of uh, thank
00:03:35you, and let me begin with the central issue here. We have
00:03:39had more than 600 thousand people who have reportedly taken to the streets
00:03:42across France, we have had similar protests
00:03:46nationwide in other countries uh such as Greece today.
00:03:50Are we witnessing a broader crisis is my
00:03:54question across Europe's economic and political model
00:03:58here? Yes, thanks for having me,
00:04:01yeah, what is happening in in Greece
00:04:05and France, and especially
00:04:08France, a confrontation
00:04:12of two interconnected
00:04:15prices, and growing public
00:04:18anger over living standards and public services
00:04:21and the divided political
00:04:24system struggling to agree on how to
00:04:28repair the country. finances, i'm basing
00:04:31my my titties of france now, and the
00:04:35and and and what began as a student protest
00:04:39over education has developed into a broader
00:04:42confrontation over wages, inequality, the cost
00:04:46of living and and public confidence in
00:04:49governments.
00:04:54mr. thank you so much for your time tonight as well, wanted to put the same
00:04:58question to you, we have had more than 600 thous
00:05:02people that have been on the streets in the country of France, the
00:05:05city that you live in, Paris has also
00:05:08been a one
00:05:08of the pivotal places that these protests have taken place.
00:05:12the same protest we have had in other countries across
00:05:16Europe, what do you think is the root cause these
00:05:19protests and what do you think is adding more pressure to
00:05:22it, more pressure to
00:05:25it?
00:05:31it seems that we are having issue hearing your voice, mr.
00:05:35rafat, i can hear you very well, can you hear me? yes, well
00:05:38let's start by saying or putting a live on
00:05:42the fact that the rebel is a french
00:05:45specificity, french are known with being
00:05:49rebel since long centuries, not only
00:05:52decades, and they always consider
00:05:56the governor as the opposition, mean the
00:05:59population who elected this governor, they once he
00:06:03takes the power, they start to treat him
00:06:07as opposition at the opposite side, and from here
00:06:11they start to fight. to struggle against the well and the
00:06:15plans the governor, whatever to be the governor going
00:06:19to, and we witnessed that even in the historic
00:06:22leadership like, general charl de goal, so
00:06:26what happened recently that the government did did
00:06:30not lessen to the minimum of requests, the minimum of
00:06:34requests started last september was by students
00:06:38from high schools calling for
00:06:41improving their schools, their laboratories
00:06:45inside the schools and improving the
00:06:48number of students each class,
00:06:52etc. small or minor requests, the government did not
00:06:55listen to that, and that made these students to
00:06:59rise up their volume of protests and from
00:07:03her joined them several other social class
00:07:06and majority of people joined them
00:07:10are the middle social class. of workers
00:07:13of life cost, well we know that
00:07:17the policies of president Macron
00:07:19concentrated so much on the
00:07:23which we can call it economic opening to bring
00:07:26investments, but investors especially for
00:07:30investors in the conflict or the clash that
00:07:34president Macron administration could not harmonize
00:07:37between the french natural
00:07:41functioning how? to they function, the society of more than
00:07:4580 million, around 80 million
00:07:48persons and how to break investments, investments is
00:07:52essential requirement for any prosper or to develop your
00:07:56economy, but he could not to develop your economy, but he could
00:08:00not harmonize, maybe because he's coming from
00:08:03very high class banking background, which is rocheld to work
00:08:07for rocheld before to present himself as
00:08:11presidential candidate for a side. so he doesn't care about
00:08:14anything except numbers, and these numbers, the
00:08:18French mentality doesn't accept it, doesn't accept to be the leader
00:08:22or to be led only by numbers, they need to be considered
00:08:26as differently by the level of education, the level
00:08:30of social care and the level of social assistance in
00:08:34case of problems of work, the conditions of work, the
00:08:38conditions of life, the life the the price to be to make
00:08:43products, especially the essential products available everyone
00:08:46in the society, that President Macron did not show a
00:08:50good understanding for these points and from her is coming the
00:08:54clash, and the point is the administration of
00:08:58Macron, with all ministers of internal affairs he
00:09:01nominated, they all believe that they can break down
00:09:05the street through force, force can never can
00:09:09never break such society to train for more than
00:09:13200 years for rebels, so from her it's coming the
00:09:16clash, that's right.
00:09:20Jonathan, when it comes to uh the
00:09:23major international dimensions to this crisis is my uh
00:09:27next questions to you, um, there is this crisis in west
00:09:31Asia where the strato for mouse is closed by the Iranian armed
00:09:35forces, we have the strat of bob and manda which is at the very least severely
00:09:39disrupted by the yemeny armed forces, the Ukraine war,
00:09:43uh in eastern Europe is also affecting what is happening
00:09:46inside Europe and then the budgetary
00:09:49priorities that these governments have inside Europe is uh adding
00:09:53more fuel to this fire uh your thoughts on what the
00:09:57government should be doing as of now to address these
00:10:00issues? well
00:10:03they what is happening in the straight of
00:10:07homos and the other parts of that gulf region
00:10:11um? Uh, in my opinion is
00:10:13beyond um the control of
00:10:17this European governments, France, Greece and so and so
00:10:21forth. Okay, I mean um, the problem.
00:10:25the that geopolitical situation there in the gulf and
00:10:28has precipitated the increase
00:10:31in the oil prices and therefore it's a
00:10:35effect on the cost of living across the world even in
00:10:39america we have when we had
00:10:43this mid terms you know in the
00:10:47in the US on Tuesday right and the reason why
00:10:51the the Republican government sorry party lost is one
00:10:55is the war against Iran, okay, so it has had an
00:10:59effect everywhere across Africa, in Europe and so on so
00:11:03forth, and so the the the the the governments in
00:11:06Europe or in other places need
00:11:09to um, readjust, and
00:11:13recalibrate their budgets and other award
00:11:17pay rises across the board or whatever, but award pay
00:11:20rises would inevitably lead to higher
00:11:24inflation. so to me
00:11:25it is a problem that these governments are
00:11:29facing and they need to sit down carefully
00:11:32and um
00:11:33and and and see how best they can address the situation.
00:11:37look, we take what happened yesterday in the french
00:11:40national assembly where
00:11:42you know the the MPs there
00:11:45rejected the revenue session the government
00:11:49proposed 2027 budget by
00:11:52458 votes to none with. only two
00:11:55abstentions, mean that's
00:11:57you know is in itself is an extraordinary
00:12:01result, although it is important to explain that the
00:12:05lawmakers were voting a heavily amended version
00:12:09the the budget, so the government must now have
00:12:12to navigate a difficult legislative
00:12:16process while responding to the widespread public
00:12:20disconent.
00:12:25Uh, Mr., uh, Raffa, the question that I wanted
00:12:29to put to you is uh, regarding the what,
00:12:33Mr. Macron said himself, he acknowledged that the wars in Ukraine and
00:12:37West Asia, along with uh, disruption in the straight of
00:12:41Moose and also the Bob and Mandab straight are directly affecting the fuel
00:12:45prices and also the everyday life uh in in the
00:12:49continent of Europe, but let me put it this way, if they
00:12:52agree that this is what causing... one the
00:12:55issues or many different issues in the continent of Europe,
00:12:59why are they still helping the US carry out more and more
00:13:03aggression against different countries in west asia, particularly you
00:13:07speaking Iran?
00:13:10well, let's admit at this
00:13:14stage, after four years, almost five years
00:13:17the the war of Ukraine, uh,
00:13:20this war caused big dilemma all over Europe, but mostly...
00:13:25impacted are the three countries, France, Germany and
00:13:29UK. Link to what's running in the straight
00:13:33of hormos at the moment and the war running,
00:13:36well, I don't think there will be any war anymore, this is another thing, this
00:13:40is my evaluation or my situation assessment, there
00:13:44will not be any war anymore after
00:13:47the losing the Republican Party for
00:13:51Congress majority, I don't think that will not be. of
00:13:55this war so what the global economic
00:13:58situation is impacting and
00:14:01sorry the global
00:14:04economics, the global economic situation in Europe is
00:14:07highly impacted, but lots
00:14:11of voices now, especially from the left and the right wings,
00:14:15mean not the not the the the extraordinary
00:14:19people, the ordinary people are rising their voice
00:14:22strongly and very loudly say: this war
00:14:26and supporting this war since the beginning was a big mistake
00:14:30because now got back on europe economically
00:14:33with this horrible situation everywhere in Europe now is
00:14:37impacted negatively on the economic level
00:14:40meanwhile there is big threat to Europe
00:14:44now and that appearing in the
00:14:47warning more than
00:14:5015 European government as well as the European Union.
00:14:56issued to the population that to to to save
00:15:00food, to save water, etc., that means there is
00:15:03evaluation or there is situation assessment, there is
00:15:07risk of war, and this war can be nuclear war as well, at least
00:15:11the nuclear can be used,
00:15:13especially with the
00:15:16the the threats of moscow, the clear threats that moscow had
00:15:20addressed to London few weeks ago, that about
00:15:24supporting... Ukraine, so there are lots and more and more
00:15:28of voices are getting rising now themselves
00:15:31loudly saying this war and supporting this war was a big
00:15:35mistake we committed in Europe. from her the
00:15:39some politicians and the politicians of administration like
00:15:43administration of like uh president macron they tried to
00:15:47use this war as hanger to
00:15:50hang the phenomenon
00:15:54we have now the problem we have now but since the big but that
00:15:57increase the anger at the street because the street and these
00:16:01protesters would rise the question in front of using
00:16:05this as hanger who who started this, who
00:16:09financed this, who armed this war for more than
00:16:13five years, that especially the weapon
00:16:16industry exhaust any budget, exhaust
00:16:19any, it's not financed by third part, I mean
00:16:23europe one financed and armed
00:16:27Ukraine, it was from the real European budget, it's not like for
00:16:31example, the war in Yemen, it's financed by Saudi
00:16:34Arabia or by Emirates budget, It's coming this
00:16:38time from the real pocket of Europeans and from her
00:16:42Europeans are more aware of this dilemma than
00:16:45other issues on our planet. I
00:16:49think and I believe also the closure of
00:16:53Strate of hormos played a big role in the
00:16:56economic problems in Europe and I think
00:16:59also in my private
00:17:02assessment or my private situation
00:17:06assessment, I think... 'Iran will continue handling a hand
00:17:10on hermos straight, which will make on the long term, when I say
00:17:14long term that means next five years for example, more economic
00:17:17troubles if there is no real compromise now between
00:17:21Europe and Iran even if United
00:17:24States is not involved that, I'm going to ask you about what a
00:17:28future holds when it comes to the war of aggression against Iran
00:17:32and also Europe, and that is my next question to
00:17:35Jonathan, what do you think is going to happen
00:17:39to these protests? do you think that governments are going to find
00:17:43a short-term solution uh or address the
00:17:47symptoms at the release at the beginning or are these protests
00:17:51going to lead
00:17:52somewhere? listen, mean
00:17:56the government, any responsible government cannot
00:17:59let no protest like what is going on in france go on
00:18:03forever, they need to um...
00:18:07find find number one you mention the symptoms, they need to
00:18:11first address the symptoms okay, a shorter
00:18:15measure and then afterwards may be go down to the
00:18:18actual cause
00:18:20you know of this um
00:18:24sentiments, this this this
00:18:27protest, okay, but privately i
00:18:31believe that the whole protest, i believe has been
00:18:35hijacked and by some
00:18:39maybe some either right-wing or left-wing
00:18:42extremists, especially at the right wing extremists, who
00:18:45wants to maybe make this macron government so
00:18:49unpopular, macron government is is think a central left government or
00:18:53so right, buse the right wing hasn't been
00:18:57in power in France for for very long time and maybe
00:19:01they see this as their chance to gain power in
00:19:05the elections next year because "I saw some
00:19:08clips
00:19:09of where some protesters were speaking German,
00:19:13others were speaking pure English. I live in the UK, so I know an
00:19:17authentic British accent, and
00:19:19I was speak pure English. I mean, how do you find a German or an English
00:19:23protester, you know, in France, protested against the
00:19:26government, so I believe that they were, there is be
00:19:30hijack by some extremis just to make this government look
00:19:33so bad, look so popular, in preparation."
00:19:37next spots, but having said all this, the government will need
00:19:41to address the symptoms right, to stop this
00:19:44protest, and number two, after the sympts have been addressed, go
00:19:48down and examine the underlying causes
00:19:51right, and find permanent solutions to
00:19:54them. Mr. Raff odd, I'm going to give
00:19:58the final thoughts to you, we have less than a minutes, what do you think is
00:20:02going to happen to these protests in the next coming months, are they going
00:20:06to lead anywhere? Well, I think they
00:20:10will continue until elections, presidential elections
00:20:13of France next April, May, and
00:20:17I believe they will impact strongly this
00:20:20elections, these elections, which means we would
00:20:23expect President Macron to get
00:20:26out from the Elise, House of
00:20:30Eliz, with like
00:20:34big limitation, and the new president. who
00:20:38comes, I expect that will consider that and the new
00:20:41administration will strongly consider what's running on the ground
00:20:44today in order not to prolongate and to make a
00:20:48civil war and France which some are calling with their
00:20:52expectation that there can be real civil war or we are close
00:20:56to civil war in France i think it's more to be addressed for
00:21:00next presidential elections april may 27
00:21:03thank you gentlemen both of you uh those were
00:21:07jonathan of anser journalists and political analysts join us from the city of
00:21:11London and Mahmoud Reford President of International Institute for
00:21:14Strategic Affairs join us from the city of Paris Thank you both
00:21:17again and that brings. This is the end of this edition of our
00:21:21spotlight program. Thank you for joining us and
00:21:23bye-bye.
00:21:40Along the shores, the Persian golf stands Delv, city
00:21:44where history and resistance run
00:21:46deep.
00:21:51It was here the rais Ali del Vari rose against British forces
00:21:55during the first world war, becoming a symbol of southern Iran's
00:21:58struggle to defend its
00:21:59homeland.
00:22:04More than a century later, another son of Tangaston, commander
00:22:08Alira Tangsidi, carried that legacy into the modern
00:22:12era. Two
00:22:15generations, one Persian Gulf, one enduring spirit
00:22:19of resist.
00:23:55When Washington wants to finance its preambitions, it sells
00:23:59government bonds, but behind the illusion of endless American
00:24:02spending lies a mounting crisis in financial
00:24:06markets. Today, as 10-year bond yields hover around
00:24:094.7%, and national debt surpasses
00:24:1340 trillion dollars, the United States faces a
00:24:17compounding economic nightmare. I leader. and
00:24:20this is a
00:24:21nutshell.
00:24:56To understand why rising bond yields threaten to
00:24:59paralyze Washington, we have to look at how government debt
00:25:03functions in the secondary
00:25:04market.
00:25:09When demand for US debt drops due to fears of
00:25:13persistent inflation and fiscal instability, investors sell off
00:25:17bonds below face value, driving effective. yields
00:25:20upward. Since 2022, the Federal Reserve has actively
00:25:24dumped its bond holdings under quantitative tightening, while major
00:25:28international holders lose interest in holding dollar debt. To attract
00:25:31buyers for new debts, the US treasury is forced to offer
00:25:35increasingly expensive interest rates, creating a vicious cycle of
00:25:39skyrocketing borrowing
00:25:40costs.
00:25:51This surge in borrowing cost directly threatens to paralyze the
00:25:55US federal budget. Interest payments on the national debt
00:25:59have already surpassed the entire American defense button.
00:26:03leaving virtually no room for public spending or domestic
00:26:07infrastructure.
00:26:12as old debts matures and gets rolled over at higher rates, the
00:26:16US government is forced to spend trillions simply servicing
00:26:20interest payments. in the short and medium term, this means higher
00:26:24mortgage and credit costs for working families, reduced corporate
00:26:27investments and rising unemployment. in the long term, high yields
00:26:31drain capital. away from productive industries, locking the American
00:26:35economy into chronic recession and erosion of dollar
00:26:38dominance.
00:26:47This financial vulnerability makes Washington's military aggression against
00:26:51Iran one the most reckless strategic blunders in
00:26:55modern history. Imperialist wars in
00:26:58Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan loaded trillions onto the... american
00:27:02debt burden. Waging an unprovoked war against resilient nation like
00:27:06Iran while drowning in $40 trillion dollars of debt strips Washington
00:27:10of its economic buffer. A military failure against Iran would
00:27:13shatter international confidence in American power, accelerating the
00:27:17global abandonment the dollar and triggering catastrophic domestic
00:27:21inflation.
00:27:28The martered leader the Islamic Revolution, Ayatullah Ali Kham.
00:27:32consistently pointed out that the era of western economic and military
00:27:36intimidation has come to an end. Washington cannot
00:27:40wage endless foreign wars, while its financial
00:27:44foundation collapses under the weight of rising yields. The
00:27:47economic data is clear, the US establishment is drowning
00:27:51in its own death trap, and no amount of political
00:27:55propaganda can hide the crummling state of its paper
00:27:58empire.
00:29:30Top stories here on Presty. IRGC's aerospace force
00:29:34successfully grounds two more American reconnaissance drones over Ash island
00:29:38in southern Iran. Iran's top security official delivers
00:29:42leaders message to the Russian president as Washington's threats against Tehran
00:29:46escalate.
00:29:52And a Canadian Prime as it presents a new budget to reduce reliance on the USA
00:29:56saying the two countries will never return to their old
00:29:59relationship.
00:30:15hello everyone and welcome to press tv world news, our
00:30:19top story, the islamic revolution guards course said it's a aerospace uh