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US President Donald Trump has hinted at a 'very big' trade deal with India following the signing of a trade pact with China. Indian trade officials are in Washington for two days of talks to finalise the contours of a potential deal.
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00:00Good evening, hello and welcome to the news today. This is your primetime destination news.
00:05Newsmakers, talking points, the big talking point.
00:08Donald Trump claims he's done a deal with China, hints that India will be next.
00:15What's at stake as Trump is ready for a deal, trade deal with India?
00:21Also a gang rape in Kolkata Law College will tell you that.
00:25And will the Thakres reunite?
00:30That's the big story breaking in Mumbai.
00:33So we've got plenty on the show.
00:35First, let's get you the big headlines.
00:38US President Donald Trump hints at a very big deal with India after the China Pact is sealed.
00:45An agreement could take bilateral trade between India and the United States from $190 billion to a massive $500 billion by 2030.
00:55Defence Minister Rajnath Singh meets with the Chinese Defence Minister.
01:00India stresses on permanent engagement de-escalation to solve border issues with Beijing.
01:11Student gang rape fire by three men, including allegedly a TMC functionary on the premises of a college in Kolkata.
01:21Survivor says she was beaten with hockey sticks.
01:24BJP slams Mamata, Government TMC.
01:27Ashore's action claims all have been arrested.
01:33Estrange Thakre cousins reunite to fight against what they call Hindi imposition in Maharashtra.
01:39Both Sena, UBT and MNS announce a joint march in Mumbai on the 5th of July.
01:49Karnataka Congress in damage control mode after a minister sensationally hints at a Cabinet Chief Minister and Karnataka Home Minister Parameshwaras rush to play down rumours of a rift at the top.
02:00After RSS General Secretary's call to change the preamble, Rahul Gandhi wades into the constitution debate once again.
02:09Hits out at RSS BJP, says both want to strip the marginalised of their rights.
02:14U.S. Supreme Court limits use of nationwide injunctions.
02:21Ruling allows Trump order ending birthright citizenship to take partial effect.
02:28It's rapper versus ex-rapper in New York.
02:31Artist 50 Cent offers to pay mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani $258,000 and a one-way ticket out of New York for his Tax the Rich pitch.
02:41Monsoon mayhem across India again.
02:49Flash floods have claimed six lives in Himachal.
02:52South Gujarat continues to be battered by raid.
02:55Roads and homes are submerged.
03:07But the big story that's breaking at the moment.
03:10India-United States trade talks have now entered its last lap.
03:17The Indian delegation is in the United States for two-day talks.
03:21And the buzz is that next month, early next month, the trade deal could be signed.
03:26Donald Trump has now claimed that a trade deal has been done with China.
03:31And today's went on record to say that a big trade deal with India is on the anvil.
03:38Remember, many believe that the deal could come as early as the first week of July.
03:45But Donald Trump today hinting that a big deal with India is on the anvil.
03:50Remember, also, Donald Trump had said during the India-Pakistan ceasefire that he had got both sides to agree to it because the trade deal was the carrot he was offering them.
04:04Listen in first to what Donald Trump said earlier today.
04:07We just signed with China yesterday, right?
04:13Just signed with China.
04:14We have everybody.
04:15We're not going to make deals with everybody.
04:17Some we're just going to send them a letter, say, thank you very much.
04:19You're going to pay 25, 35, 45 percent.
04:23That's the easy way to do it.
04:24And my people don't want to do it that way.
04:25They want to do some of it, but they want to make more deals than I would do.
04:29But we're having some great deals.
04:31We have one coming up, maybe with India.
04:33Very big one.
04:34Well, we're going to open up India in the China deal.
04:37We're starting to open up China.
04:39Things that never really could have happened in the relationship with every country has been very good.
04:45So what can one expect from this trade deal?
04:48Why is it such a big deal?
04:50Business Today TV's Karishma Asudhani breaks it down for us
04:54and tells us what to expect from the latest round of trade talks that are ongoing in the United States.
05:02Now, currently, India's trade officials along with chief negotiator Rajesh Agarwal is in Washington
05:09in order to finalize the contour of the deal for dialogue of over two days
05:15and to come back with an interim deal with the hope that the deadlock
05:20and the minor strain that was existing will not be there further.
05:25Washington had a key ask and this was to get more access into Indian market,
05:31especially Indian market opening up for Washington's agriculture products,
05:37specifically that related to crops,
05:41which could have harmed Indian farmers.
05:43Here and there looks like this final meeting could strengthen the deal between both the countries
05:53and a deal could finally be signed before July 9.
05:57All of this also coming at a time when the US has announced that a trade deal with China
06:03has also been signed after many meetings,
06:07especially the ones that were also held in Geneva a few weeks back,
06:13which will give comfort to the US and also to the global supply chain
06:17when it comes to the rare earth exports.
06:20India has had a first mover advantage and it is only in few days that we learn
06:24at what extent will this interim deal be finalized,
06:28if this is going to have intricate details on trade aspects
06:33or if this is going to be a broader memorandum
06:36in order to just at least escape the 26% tariff.
06:41So let's take those big questions.
06:44Will India-US strike this trade deal now?
06:47Is that the big carrot that United States has offered India?
06:51Which sectors can India open up?
06:55What is this deal really going to mean for the Indian economy?
07:00What will India get in return if the United States wants greater market access?
07:05Is Donald Trump's declaration that he's made today that a big deal is in the offing
07:10simply another pressure tactic by a president who sometimes seems to be more of a deal maker?
07:16Joining me now, Meera Shankar, former Indian ambassador to the United States
07:19and Raymond Vickery, author and advisor on U.S.-India relations,
07:23the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade.
07:26So knows a thing or two about trade.
07:28Let me come to you there in the United States, Mr. Vickery, first.
07:32What's the sense you're getting?
07:34Is Donald Trump building pressure on India to sign up,
07:37saying that I've already done a deal with China, next India?
07:40Or do you believe that this will in its logical course
07:43actually happen as early as July or possibly as late as August?
07:48Well, thanks very much for having me.
07:52You know, this is of a piece of the way in which President Trump likes to operate.
07:58And that is he destroys international multilevel approaches,
08:04the World Trade Organization, before that to general agreements and tariffs and trade.
08:09So he can place himself as the great man making a bilateral deal.
08:16And then what he does is create a problem which really wasn't there before,
08:21at least not in the way in which he made it so acute on April 2nd
08:27by announcing these atrocious tariffs across the board.
08:32And then he claims to have solved them.
08:35I think there will be an announcement of an agreement,
08:39but the agreement is going to be like that,
08:43which was previously signed with the UK and is in the offing for China.
08:49And that is really, it's a framework.
08:52It addresses a couple of issues,
08:55but really is not at all the blockbuster which he says
09:01and is not going to do the things that he talks about,
09:05about bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. and so forth.
09:09I think that there will be some progress,
09:12but basically this president looks at trade deficits.
09:17And so he'll get something in terms of greater defense purchases,
09:23greater oil purchases,
09:25claim that that has brought down the trade deficit
09:29when it really has nothing to do with tariffs.
09:32So I think that's the kind of agreement you're going to see.
09:35And that's what you've seen so far with China.
09:39Basically, this agreement signed with China
09:41is just simply to have a truce on the 145% tariff,
09:47which he had announced earlier.
09:50So I think we'll see more of the same.
09:52Meera Shankar, you're hearing from Raymond Vickery there,
09:55saying that there'll be a lot of optics
09:58around whatever Donald Trump does,
10:00but the reality, the nitty-gritty
10:01of a sort of wide-ranging trade deal is unlikely,
10:06given the fact that there are a number of sticking points
10:09on critical issues,
10:10market access being one of them,
10:12agriculture products being another.
10:15So it could be at best a limited trade deal.
10:18It could bring some rationality to tariffs,
10:21but it's not really going to be the game changer
10:24that Donald Trump made it out to be today
10:26when he said a big deal with India is in the offing.
10:29Do you agree?
10:36Meera Shankar, can you hear me?
10:40Okay, that line has frozen.
10:43Raymond, go ahead with that.
10:44Am I right in saying, to pick what you're saying,
10:48that with Donald Trump,
10:49it's not about big-ticket optics,
10:52but a very limited trade deal
10:54that he will make a lot of noise about?
10:56Well, I think you've capsulated it very well.
10:59You know, Wall Street has already adopted
11:03the acronym TACO for Donald Trump
11:07in regard to trade and tariffs,
11:10and that stands for Trump always chickens out.
11:14And what happens is he announces something
11:18like he did on April 2nd,
11:21which would have been a horrendous tariff on India,
11:25and he sees markets go down,
11:29and then he backs off,
11:30and then he claims a victory for it.
11:33So I think that is of a piece,
11:37and that's what's going to happen here.
11:39I hope that I'm wrong, quite frankly,
11:42because I want to see free trade
11:44between the United States and India,
11:47or at least freer trade,
11:49and we could get that
11:51if we had a more rational and logical approach
11:54to the problem.
11:57Let me bring in Meera Shankar,
11:58who we had lost for a moment.
11:59Meera Shankar, what's your sense?
12:01Raymond Vickery is saying
12:02this could be at best a very limited deal.
12:04Do you believe a wide-ranging deal
12:07is possible with the United States,
12:09given that there are several tricky issues,
12:11agriculture, market access?
12:14I think the challenge for India
12:16is to, you know,
12:19ensure that whatever trade deal
12:22is worked out with the United States,
12:25A, does not impact adversely
12:28sensitive sectors in India,
12:32such as agriculture,
12:33where we have subsistence farming,
12:36which cannot compete
12:38with the huge mega-corporations
12:41which operate in the US.
12:44Secondly, that there are some benefits
12:47which flow to India
12:48beyond just staving off the tariffs
12:52which Trump has threatened to impose.
12:56See, at the moment,
12:57it appears that the US
13:00does not have negotiating,
13:03fast-track negotiating authority
13:05from the Congress
13:06to really reduce tariffs
13:09beyond the MFN,
13:12which they have offered under the WTO.
13:15So, I don't know
13:17what India is going to get
13:19from this.
13:19So, what happens, ma'am,
13:21to the tariffs that Trump announced
13:24unilaterally in April,
13:26then put a pause button on them,
13:28saying, I'm pausing it to July 9th?
13:29You believe that even if there's a trade deal,
13:32some of those tariffs will continue
13:34and carry forward?
13:35Some will continue,
13:37like the tariffs on steel and aluminium,
13:40which have already been put in place
13:42and raised to 50%.
13:44And derivative products
13:47made of steel and aluminium
13:49have also been imposed
13:51the same kind of tariffs, 50%.
13:54Similarly, automobiles
13:56and automobile components,
13:58those tariffs will continue.
14:00But the threatened 26% reciprocal tariff
14:05will probably be withheld
14:08if there is a deal.
14:10If talks are progressing well,
14:12but no deal, you know,
14:14the deal still requires
14:16some work to be finished,
14:18I am not sure
14:20whether the reciprocal tariffs
14:22will kick in or be suspended,
14:25as some are speculating
14:27that all the reciprocal tariffs
14:30may be extended
14:32for some more time
14:34because deals with the EU,
14:37with Vietnam,
14:38with Japan
14:39are still to be finalised.
14:42They have not yet reached a point
14:45where they are final.
14:47So it could be that he rolls over
14:50the temporary suspension
14:52for some time.
14:54Do you believe, Raymond Vickery,
14:55that's what could happen,
14:56that having dramatically announced
14:59a slew of tariffs
15:00at the start of April,
15:02then put a pause button on them?
15:04Do you believe that, at best,
15:07Trump will withhold them
15:08as long as the trade negotiations
15:10are on track?
15:12Or he's separating trade
15:15from tariffs?
15:16He wants America's trade deficits
15:19to reduce with countries
15:20like India and China.
15:22Tariffs will be used as a weapon.
15:24Well, I think Ambassador Shanker's right.
15:28This is not going to be
15:31an imposition of great tariffs,
15:38or it's not going to be
15:40a great opening.
15:44President Trump has shown
15:46in his track record
15:48that when push comes to shove,
15:52he backs off
15:54in order to be able
15:55to claim a victory.
15:57To hear him tell it
15:59when it finally comes out,
16:02whether it's the 9th of July
16:05or probably even later than that,
16:09it's going to be
16:11the sort of damp squib
16:13that it has been the case
16:16in regard to China
16:19and UK so far.
16:21So this is all of a piece
16:24to try to build
16:25a authoritarian approach,
16:30not only domestically
16:32in the United States,
16:34but internationally.
16:37I think that there will be
16:39some placation of him.
16:41A NATO meeting recently showed,
16:44and before that,
16:45with the UK,
16:47that you deal with
16:49President Trump
16:51by placation
16:53rather than confrontation,
16:56and then things go along
16:58pretty much as they have.
17:01And that's not the way
17:03in which the international system
17:05ought to run,
17:06and it's not the way
17:07in which U.S.-India
17:08trade relations ought to run
17:10because these are the two
17:12great democracies of the world
17:14and trade and economic engagement
17:17is very much a part of it.
17:18But it's not going to be accomplished
17:20by Trump threats
17:22and then claiming victory
17:24for a problem
17:25which he created
17:26in the first place.
17:28You know, Meera Shankar,
17:29in conclusion,
17:30we've seen Donald Trump
17:31make these comments
17:32about how he stopped
17:34the war between India
17:35and Pakistan
17:35because he made it very clear,
17:37issued an ultimatum,
17:38if you don't stop the war,
17:39no trade deal.
17:40Again, many believe
17:41that is Trump simply
17:43once again trying to claim credit
17:44and be at the center
17:45of anything that happens.
17:47Do you believe that Trump
17:48is holding out a carrot to India?
17:50And is it really going to make
17:52any significant difference
17:53having this trade deal
17:54with the United States?
17:56I think it's not a carrot at all.
17:59It is the removal of a stick
18:01because there's no significant concession
18:05which is being offered to India
18:08as far as I have seen
18:10from newsroom.
18:11because, you know,
18:13MFN is the normal tariff.
18:16The 10% baseline tariff
18:19will still apply.
18:21The steel and aluminium tariffs
18:23will still apply.
18:25The tariffs on automobiles,
18:27automobile components
18:28will still apply.
18:30And India will reduce tariffs
18:33for the United States.
18:34So, what Trump is seeking
18:37is he's holding out a big stick.
18:40Then he says,
18:41I won't use the stick
18:43if you open up.
18:44So, that's the essence
18:46of the trade negotiation.
18:48So, I don't see
18:49that there's any carrot for India.
18:51But what it does is to say,
18:54OK, it will stave off trade action
18:57that Trump threatens.
18:59OK.
19:00Very, very interesting there.
19:02Meera Shankar, Raymond Vikri
19:03joining me on that story
19:05with Donald Trump.
19:06You've always got to look
19:07beyond the headlines
19:08and not the one-liners
19:10that he tends to throw
19:11to his audiences.
19:12Thank you both very much
19:13for joining me here
19:14at the top of the news tonight.
19:16Let's turn and stay
19:18with Donald Trump for a moment
19:19before we come to
19:20domestic politics
19:21because, again,
19:23a twist in the tale.
19:25Could there now be
19:26a new dawn in U.S.-Iran ties?
19:29According to reports
19:29coming in from some
19:30American newspapers
19:31and media channels,
19:32President Donald Trump's
19:33administration is considering
19:36helping Iran access
19:38$30 billion
19:39to build a civilian
19:41energy-producing
19:42nuclear program,
19:43thereby easing sanctions
19:44and releasing billions
19:45of dollars
19:46in restricted Iranian funds.
19:48The discussions
19:49mark a massive twist
19:51in the diplomatic landscape
19:51between the two nations
19:54just barely a week
19:55after America
19:56bombed nuclear sites
19:58in Iran.
19:59What really happened then
20:00to Iran's nuclear arsenal?
20:03I'm going to raise that
20:03with the Pentagon official,
20:05but first take a look
20:06at this report.
20:07Just days after bombing
20:20key Iranian nuclear units,
20:23the U.S. is considering
20:24wide-ranging incentives
20:26to bring Iran
20:27back to the negotiating table.
20:29The American media
20:31has reported
20:32that Washington
20:33could offer
20:33Tehran
20:34up to $30 billion
20:35for a civil nuclear program.
20:38The Trump administration
20:39could also lift
20:40sanctions on Iran
20:41that would allow them
20:43access to millions
20:44of dollars
20:44in foreign bank accounts
20:46that are currently frozen.
20:48The U.S. president
20:49at the NATO meet
20:50this week
20:51had hinted
20:52at lifting
20:52some curbs
20:53that will allow
20:54Iran to trade oil.
20:56They just had a war.
20:58The war was fought.
21:00They fought it bravely.
21:01I'm not giving up.
21:02They're in the oil business.
21:04I mean,
21:04I could stop it
21:05if I wanted.
21:06I could sell China
21:07the oil myself.
21:08I don't want to do that.
21:09They're going to need money
21:10to put that country
21:11back into shape.
21:12We want to see that happen.
21:15No,
21:15if they're going to sell oil,
21:17they're going to sell oil.
21:18We're not taking over the oil.
21:19We could have, you know.
21:20The talk about
21:21concessions for Iran
21:22comes even as
21:24world opinion
21:24is divided
21:25on the impact
21:26of American airstrikes
21:27on the Fardou nuclear plant.
21:30There is speculation
21:31on whether Iran
21:33had already moved
21:33its enriched uranium
21:35from the heavily fortified
21:36nuclear facility.
21:38President Trump,
21:39however,
21:39has rejected
21:40that possibility.
21:41We think we hit them
21:42so hard and so fast
21:44they didn't get to move.
21:45And if you knew
21:45about that material,
21:46it's very hard
21:47and very dangerous to move.
21:49We think it's
21:49covered with
21:50granite,
21:53concrete,
21:54and steel.
21:55Since then,
21:56we've collected
21:56additional intelligence.
21:58We've also spoken
21:59to people
21:59who have seen the site
22:00and the site
22:01is obliterated.
22:04Meanwhile,
22:04the Iranian parliament
22:05this week
22:06passed a bill
22:07suspending cooperation
22:08with the International
22:09Atomic Energy Agency.
22:12Tehran could now
22:13stop IAEA inspectors
22:15from entering
22:16their nuclear facilities
22:17for any verification.
22:19Bureau Report,
22:20India Today.
22:21So has Donald Trump
22:25and the United States
22:26really obliterated
22:27Iran's nuclear program
22:28as they claimed?
22:30Well, a few days ago,
22:31I spoke to former
22:31Pentagon official
22:32and security expert
22:33Wes Bryant
22:34on just how effective
22:35the U.S. bombing
22:36of the Fordo nuclear
22:37nuke plant was.
22:39Listen in
22:39to his insider take.
22:41You don't believe
22:43Iran's nuclear capability
22:45has been obliterated
22:47by this 12-day war
22:48that they can revive
22:50in a couple of months?
22:53Not at all.
22:53And we know,
22:54you know,
22:54we've seen reports
22:56and it's been corroborated
22:58that Iran,
22:59you know,
22:59moved centrifuges
23:00out of their main facility
23:02in the days
23:03before the strikes.
23:05You know,
23:06often we underestimate
23:07the savviness
23:09of our adversaries
23:10as America as well.
23:12And so there's nothing
23:13to say that there's
23:14not sites
23:15that we don't even know about.
23:17You know,
23:17Iran has known
23:18that we've known
23:18about these three sites
23:19that we've struck
23:21for years now.
23:23You know,
23:24are there other sites?
23:25There likely are.
23:26They are.
23:26Where did they take
23:27these centrifuges?
23:29We're probably trying
23:30to figure that out,
23:31but it would be
23:32naive and overconfident
23:33to say that
23:34we know all
23:35of this intelligence.
23:37And so,
23:38you know,
23:38what these strikes did.
23:40But West,
23:40the Israeli intelligence
23:42seems to have
23:42a different picture.
23:43They believe that
23:44or their officials
23:45are coming on camera
23:47to suggest that
23:48this war has put
23:49Iran's nuclear program
23:51back by a couple of years.
23:54You know,
23:55even if it had,
23:57which,
23:57of course,
23:57is at odds
23:58with our intelligence,
24:00but even if it had,
24:01what this has done
24:02strategically
24:03was ensure
24:04that Iran,
24:06regardless of this regime
24:07or the next regime
24:08continues to be
24:11an adversary
24:11of the West
24:12of the United States
24:13of Israel
24:14really for generations.
24:16I think with this,
24:17you know,
24:19with these reckless strikes
24:20with this reckless strike campaign
24:22on part of Israel
24:24to begin with,
24:25and then the really reactionary
24:27and I'd say emotional response
24:29by the Trump administration
24:31to hit these nuclear facilities
24:35with no notice,
24:37I'd say that
24:39that ensured
24:40that, you know,
24:41Iran feels
24:43an immediate threat
24:43to their sovereignty
24:44such that they haven't
24:45even felt in the past.
24:48Now, we know Iran
24:49is a, you know,
24:50as we call it,
24:50this axis of terror,
24:52but I believe there's
24:53far more strategic methods
24:55by which to deal
24:57with the Iran problem,
24:58and this wasn't one of them.
24:59I don't think there was
25:00any strategy involved here.
25:01I think this was another,
25:03you know,
25:03grand kind of
25:04narcissistic power play
25:06on part of Trump.
25:08He wants to feel feared.
25:09He wants to be respected.
25:11He demands admiration,
25:13and I think this is
25:14another symptom of that.
25:16So, long-term strategy
25:17was just not thought out here.
25:19You're making an interesting point.
25:21You're calling it
25:21narcissistic power play.
25:23There are others
25:23who've called this
25:24performative diplomacy
25:26or performative foreign policy,
25:29but are you there
25:30therefore saying
25:31that America
25:31could have simply
25:33stayed away
25:33and allowed Israel
25:35and Iran
25:35to battle it out
25:37with missile strike
25:38after missile strike?
25:39Was it,
25:40the Trump administration
25:42would claim
25:42that it was their action
25:44on Sunday
25:45that brought an early end
25:46to otherwise
25:47an escalating conflict?
25:50Yes, you know,
25:51I think it's a microcosm,
25:53kind of a small example
25:54of the same thing
25:56we did in World War II,
25:57to say that,
25:57you know,
25:58the nuclear weapons
25:59that we dropped
26:00suddenly stopped the war,
26:01and so that was
26:02a great thing.
26:04These are all...
26:04Trump actually likened it,
26:06by the way,
26:06West,
26:06to Hiroshima.
26:07Trump today likened
26:09what was done
26:10to Iran's nuclear sites,
26:11to what happened in 1945
26:13in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
26:17Correct.
26:17And it, you know,
26:18and he sent out a video
26:19really glorifying war crimes
26:22and mocking the Iran regime
26:26and the drops
26:26against the nuclear facilities.
26:30And so, you know,
26:32we have this entire culture
26:33really that's on,
26:35becoming on par
26:36with Israel's military culture,
26:39where it becomes,
26:40you know,
26:40no holds barred,
26:42disregard of,
26:43disregard for international law.
26:45In Israel's case,
26:46massive disregard
26:47for civilian casualties,
26:48which they're already
26:49showing in Iran.
26:50And again,
26:51when we go to war
26:52or any conflict
26:53against any nation
26:54or entity,
26:56the civilian populace
26:57should never be
26:58our adversary.
26:59They're not our adversary.
27:00In fact, ideally,
27:01we want them
27:02to support our cause.
27:05So, you know,
27:07when we hear reports
27:09that the entire Iranian
27:10IRGC leadership
27:12has been wiped out,
27:14Ali Khamenei
27:14is in a bunker,
27:16the sense that
27:17we are being fed
27:18is that
27:19Iran is on its knees.
27:22This war has put Iran
27:23on its knees.
27:24You're giving a very
27:24different call.
27:25You actually believe
27:26that far from
27:27the nuclear power
27:28being obliterated,
27:30far from Iran
27:30being on its knees,
27:32this may only
27:33stir up
27:35even more nationalist
27:36sentiment
27:37and retain Iran's
27:39status as a primary
27:40adversary to Israel
27:41and the United States?
27:43Yes.
27:44I think really,
27:45you know,
27:45starting with the war
27:46on Gaza
27:46and arguably before that,
27:48we've allowed,
27:50as Israel's
27:51really closest
27:51military partner,
27:53we've allowed Israel
27:54to become essentially
27:55a rogue state
27:56in the Middle East,
27:57exacerbating
27:58the existing conflicts.
28:00I think Iran
28:02is going to continue
28:02to wage
28:04very robust
28:06and very intelligent
28:07proxy warfare
28:08for generations
28:10to come.
28:12They will not have
28:13any incentive
28:14to join
28:17any kind of treaty
28:18on nuclear
28:18non-proliferation
28:19at this point.
28:21And in fact,
28:21their incentive
28:22will probably be
28:22to nuclearize
28:23even more so
28:25than they possibly
28:27were previously.
28:28Well,
28:29those are very
28:29troubling words
28:30from you,
28:31Wes Bryant,
28:32but for sharing
28:33your thoughts
28:33so openly
28:34and giving us
28:36a sense
28:36of how we should
28:37read this
28:38rapidly evolving
28:40situation
28:40which remains fluid,
28:42I thank you
28:43for joining me
28:44here on the news
28:45today.
28:45Thanks so much.
28:47Thanks for having me.
28:54Okay,
28:55let's turn to
28:55one of our big
28:56national stories
28:57that breaking
28:57at the moment.
28:58Congress leader
28:59Rahul Gandhi
28:59has now tweeted
29:00on the
29:01Sabvidhan debate
29:02the constitution.
29:04Should the
29:04constitution be
29:05amended?
29:06Rahul Gandhi
29:07has said the
29:07mask of the
29:08RSS has come
29:09off again.
29:09The constitution
29:10irks them
29:11because it speaks
29:12of equality,
29:13secularism and
29:13justice.
29:14RSS BJP
29:15doesn't want
29:16the constitution.
29:17They want
29:17manusmriti.
29:18They aim to
29:19strip the
29:20marginalized
29:20and the poor
29:21of their rights
29:21and enslave
29:22them again.
29:23Snatching a
29:23powerful weapon
29:24like the
29:24constitution from
29:25them is their
29:26real agenda.
29:26RSS should
29:27stop dreaming
29:28this dream.
29:29We will never
29:29let them succeed.
29:31Every patriotic
29:31Indian will defend
29:32the constitution
29:33until their
29:34last breath.
29:35Remember,
29:35this is coming
29:36against the
29:37backdrop of
29:37RSS leader
29:38Datatre
29:39Hossbale saying
29:40that words like
29:41socialism and
29:42secularism that
29:43were brought in
29:43the constitution
29:44by Indira Gandhi
29:45during the
29:45emergency years
29:46should be removed.
29:48So Rahul Gandhi
29:49now once again
29:50targeting the
29:51RSS, claiming
29:51that the RSS
29:52fundamentally wants
29:54to change the
29:54constitution and
29:56replace it with
29:57the manusmriti.
29:58This was the
29:58campaign he had
29:59launched during
30:00the Lok Sabha
30:01elections as well.
30:02Samvidhan
30:03Khatre mein
30:03hain.
30:04Joining me now
30:05is our political
30:06editor Moshmi
30:07Singh.
30:07Moshmi, Rahul
30:09Gandhi once again
30:10is waiving the
30:12constitution and
30:13claiming that the
30:14RSS wants to
30:15change the
30:16constitution.
30:17What really is
30:19the endgame here?
30:20Does Rahul Gandhi
30:21believe that the
30:22constitution debate
30:23is still one that
30:24he can take to
30:26the people of the
30:27country?
30:27Clearly, Rajdeep,
30:29the Congress has
30:31been reason to
30:32believe with the
30:33recent remarks that
30:35Dutta Tre
30:36Husbole made and
30:37you know it's
30:37really got that
30:38red constitution
30:39book back on the
30:40agenda at least
30:42for the Congress
30:42party and the
30:43other opposition
30:44parties.
30:45You know not so
30:46long ago, two
30:46days back, we
30:47were in a press
30:48conference where
30:49Mr. Karge, the
30:50Congress President
30:51had waived that
30:52constitution book and
30:53yet again you know
30:55with Rahul Gandhi
30:56leading that charge
30:58today with his
30:59post on X saying
31:00that it's the RSS
31:02that wants to
31:02destroy the idea
31:03of India and
31:04every Indian will
31:05fight till the
31:07last breath to
31:08protect the
31:08constitution.
31:09That really means
31:10that in the
31:11upcoming monsoon
31:12session and
31:13political debates
31:14now the Congress
31:15will want to
31:17bring its most
31:17pertinent issue
31:18that had become a
31:20big political
31:21tool for it in
31:22the 2024 Lok Sabha
31:23elections yet again
31:25and it comes right
31:26close on the
31:26heels of the
31:27Bihar elections.
31:29Right.
31:30Okay.
31:30Moshpi Singh saying
31:32that Rahul Gandhi
31:32is determined to
31:33make the
31:34constitution a
31:35political issue
31:36once again based
31:37on Dattatre
31:38Hospale's comments.
31:40Thanks very much
31:40for joining us.
31:41Remember it is
31:42Dattatre Hospale
31:44widely considered a
31:45potential successor
31:46to the post of
31:47Sarsang Chalak in
31:48the RSS who
31:49called for removing
31:50the term socialist
31:51and secular from
31:53the constitutional
31:54preamble yesterday.
31:56The opposition
31:56has claimed that
31:57the Ssang has
31:58never accepted the
31:59constitution and
31:59their renewed call
32:00is part of a
32:01long-standing conspiracy
32:02to dismantle
32:03Ambedkar's vision.
32:05The political
32:05tug of war over
32:06the constitution
32:07take a look.
32:12RSS General
32:13Secretary Dattatre Hospale
32:14has called for a
32:15debate on removal
32:17of the words
32:17socialist and
32:19secular from the
32:20preamble of the
32:21constitution while
32:24speaking at an
32:24event to mark the
32:2650th anniversary of
32:27the 1975 emergency
32:29in Delhi.
32:36The BJP endorsed
32:56Hossabale's demand.
32:58Any rights-thinking
32:58citizen will endorse
32:59it because everybody
33:00knows that this is
33:01not the part of the
33:02original constitution
33:03which was written
33:04by Dr. Ambedkar
33:05and the rest of the
33:06committee.
33:07This is not the
33:07question of BJP
33:08versus non-BJP.
33:09This is the question
33:09of preserving the
33:10democratic values,
33:11preserving the
33:12constitutional values.
33:14And those who are
33:15flaunting the
33:16constitution book are
33:17actually the biggest
33:18violators of the
33:18constitution.
33:20The Congress hit out
33:22at the RSS and the
33:24BJP calling them
33:25anti-constitution.
33:27The RSS never
33:28accepted this
33:29constitution of India
33:30and its foundational
33:31pillars of social
33:33justice, economic
33:34justice, political
33:35justice, saying that
33:36this constitution did
33:37not derive inspiration
33:38from the ideals of
33:40Manu.
33:40It was not based on
33:41Manu's.
33:43The remarks by the
33:45RSS leader assume
33:46significance as the
33:48BJP and Congress
33:49have been accusing
33:50each other, attacking
33:51the constitution framed
33:53by B.R. Ambedkar
33:54and other stalwarts of
33:56the Constituent
33:57Assembly.
33:58Congress MP Rahul
33:59Gandhi had made
34:01Samvithan Bajau the
34:03theme of his campaign
34:04during 2014 Loksabhai
34:06elections.
34:09The RSS and the BJP
34:10are trying to destroy
34:12India's constitution and
34:13change India's constitution.
34:15The Congress party and
34:16the India alliance is
34:17trying to save the
34:18constitution of India.
34:21Prime Minister Narendra
34:22Modi on the other hand
34:23has time and again
34:24described the imposition
34:26of emergency by Indira
34:27Gandhi in 1975 as one
34:30of the darkest chapters
34:31in India's democratic
34:33history.
34:34KAL 25 June
34:35को
34:35भारत के
34:39लोकतंत्र पे
34:39जो काला धब्बा
34:40लगा था
34:41उसके
34:43पचास वर्ष हो
34:44रहे हैं
34:45भारत की
34:48नई पीड़ी
34:49इस बात को
34:51कभी नहीं भुलेगी
34:52कि भारत के
34:55समिधान को
34:56पूरी तरा
34:59नकार दिया गया था
35:00लोकतंत्र को
35:02पूरी तरा दबोच दिया गया था
35:04भारत के
35:05भारत के
35:06जनरल सेकरेश
35:07पिच्छ पर
35:08रमोल अव तर्मस
35:09socialist and secular
35:10from the preamble
35:12has now sparked off
35:13a new political face-off.
35:16The big question is
35:17is it mere rhetoric
35:19or will the Modi government
35:21go ahead
35:22and remove
35:23these two words
35:24from the preamble
35:25of the constitution?
35:27This is something
35:27that remains to be seen.
35:30वीर वीडियो जनलिस
35:30एरच कुमार
35:31This is Sunil Bhatt
35:32reporting from Jammu
35:33for India Today.
35:37Okay, let's turn from there
35:38to the other big political story
35:40making the headlines today.
35:42A political twist
35:43only few saw coming.
35:44Maharashtra's estranged cousins
35:46Uddhav and Raj Thakre
35:47could be reuniting
35:48after two decades
35:50for a common cause.
35:52Hindi imposition
35:53in primary schools
35:54in Maharashtra.
35:56They're coming together
35:57many believe
35:57marks a potential
35:59turning point
35:59before the crucial
36:01municipal elections
36:02across that state.
36:04Could this new alliance
36:05actually work
36:06and will the warring cousins
36:07really come together?
36:09Take a look
36:09at this report.
36:10What was once thought
36:16of as unthinkable
36:18may now be happening again.
36:21Once allies
36:22then rivals
36:24now set to reunite.
36:30Uddhav Thakre
36:30and Raj Thakre
36:31seated together
36:32fighting for the Marathi manus.
36:35Balasaheb Thakre's
36:37long cherished dream
36:38is finally coming true.
36:41For the first time
36:42in two decades
36:43the Thakre cousins
36:44are set to join forces
36:46for a common cause.
36:50Opposing the Maharashtra
36:51government's decision
36:52to implement Hindi
36:53from class 1 to 5
36:55under the National
36:56Education Policy's
36:57three language formula.
37:00The Thakres are calling it
37:01an imposition
37:02on regional identity
37:04and linguistic diversity.
37:07We have decided
37:08to have a protest
37:09against the imposition
37:11of Hindi
37:12and for this very purpose
37:14we requested
37:16all political parties
37:17and everyone
37:19each and every
37:20Marathi manus
37:21to participate
37:22in the protest
37:22and we got a positive
37:24response from everyone.
37:26So this will be
37:27a historic protest
37:28on 5th July
37:29and it will be
37:30a remembrance
37:31of 1960
37:33the former
37:38Maharashtra
37:39chief minister
37:40Uddhav Thakre
37:41has also slammed
37:42the government
37:43for imposing
37:44language emergency
37:45alleging
37:46that this move
37:48is an attempt
37:49to erase
37:50of Marathi-ness.
37:50The duo,
37:57which earlier planned to hold
38:14separate rallies
38:15parties over the same issue
38:16will now hold
38:18a joint protest march
38:19on July 5th.
38:22Their protest march
38:23will also be backed
38:24by Sharad Pawar's
38:25NCP faction.
38:27The BJP,
38:28on the other hand,
38:29claims that the Thakres
38:30are using this protest
38:32to save
38:33their political identities.
38:34Maharashtra
39:04Will the combined Thakre star power be greater than the sum of their parts?
39:11And is this the first step towards truly realizing Bala Sahib's vision for his family?
39:17Bureau Report, India Today.
39:21Okay, let me go straight across to our Mumbai editor, Sahil Joshi.
39:26Join me, Sahil.
39:27What's the sense you're picking up?
39:28Could we now be seeing the first hint of a political alliance ahead of the municipal election that could take place as early as September?
39:36The two Thakres coming together?
39:38Is that a real possibility now, Sahil?
39:41Well, it clearly looks like that at this point of time.
39:44Because, you know, what is happening on 5th of July was also kind of unthinkable.
39:50Both the Thakres had never, since the time Raj Thakre had parted ways with the Shiv Sena, with his uncle.
39:58And brother Uttav Thakre, they had never come together on one stage for any political event.
40:04They have come together for family functions or maybe some non-political events,
40:09but never come together for a cause or for a particular issue, which might be a burning political issue.
40:15This is a time when we can see that they are coming together.
40:18They are ready to adjust with each other.
40:20They have spoken to each other.
40:22That is also quite important.
40:24And they can also see that at this point of time, to retain the Thakre brand, whoever retains it,
40:33but to retain the Thakre brand is going to be very important.
40:36Because, you know, it has really taken a hit when Eknat Shinde has taken over the party and party name and the symbol.
40:44Both the brothers realize that this is a time that they need to come together.
40:49But whether the practical reason, for all practical reasons, seat sharing or many other things,
40:54will they be able to transfer it into a political alliance or not?
40:56That is yet to be seen.
40:57But I can clearly see that this is the first step towards that.
41:02And a few more months, we'll get to know whether they are actually coming together or not.
41:08Well, in Maharashtra, never say never.
41:10You've seen Congress coming together with the Shiv Sena in the past.
41:14The Pawars have split apart, fought each other.
41:17Now, who knows?
41:18There could be a Ghar Vapsi and the Thakres could come together.
41:21Sahil Zoshi for joining me there from Mumbai and hinting that that alliance could actually take place.
41:26Very interesting.
41:27Let's turn from there to our other top story.
41:30Another alleged rape horror has shocked Kolkata, a year after the RG car rape case.
41:36The alleged gang rape this time took place inside a South Calcutta law college premises.
41:41Three people, including a former student turned staffer,
41:44and the two current students allegedly raped the survivor inside the guardroom
41:49on the state government-run college premises.
41:52One of them is supposed to be a Trinamul Congress activist, student activist,
41:57which has put the Mamata Banerjee government on the back foot once again.
42:01Take a look at this report.
42:03Even as the scars of the RG car medical college rape-murder case still haunts the nation,
42:15another horror stuns West Bengal.
42:19This time, an alleged gang rape inside a state-run law college in South Kolkata.
42:25The three accused, including a college staffer and two current students, are arrested.
42:33The court has granted police their custody till July 1st.
42:40According to the FIR filed based on a complaint by the survivor,
42:44the main accused proposed marriage to her.
42:48The survivor, a student of the college, refused, saying she had a boyfriend.
42:53She was allegedly logged, threatened and raped.
42:59The survivor, demanding justice, describes her harrowing ordeal.
43:07She had a panic attack after the sexual assault and pleaded for help.
43:12But the main gate was locked.
43:15And she was allegedly assaulted in the guardroom.
43:18The accused allegedly recorded her video, threatened to leak it and hurt her family.
43:26She was even attacked with hockey stinks.
43:29One of the accused, Manujit Mishra, is a TMC student wing leader and is a contractual staff at the college.
43:36TMC highlighted that police have arrested all accused and appealed that the incident should not be politicized.
43:45The police have arrested all the time.
44:15justice gathers team dmcmp kalyan banerji has shockingly shifted the onus from police to the
44:23victim the bjp slammed mamta banerji's government calling bengal a nightmare
44:53and in less than a year once again a similar crime
45:21a rape has taken place inside a government-run educational campus in the city prompting not just
45:28the opposition but many in the city of kolkata to ask the mamta banerji government how is it that
45:35criminals are roaming free and they can indulge in such crime with such impunity with camera person
45:43or gukhosh and anupa mishra and rajesh saha in kolkata indrajeet for india today
45:49if the dinamol congress government in bengal is on the back foot on that alleged gang rape
45:56in goa it's the ruling bjp that finds itself in a bit of a pickle a goa bjp leader and a cabinet minister
46:04govind gowde was ousted from the cabinet earlier this week after he made a series of allegations
46:11of corruption against the government of chief minister promote savant and savant's leadership
46:17in particular but what really happened in this govind gowde case and is goa now becoming a state
46:23where the bjp finds itself split wide open take a look at this report
46:29in politics dissent within ranks often comes at a price and in goa the price of speaking out
46:40turns to have been a cabinet seat
46:43on may 25 bjp minister govind gowde publicly accused the tribal welfare department of misusing
46:53public funds delaying housing projects for tribal communities and bypassing norms in file clearances
47:01the twist the tribal welfare department is directly handled by chief minister promote savant
47:08barely three weeks later on june 18 gowde was dropped from the goa cabinet
47:14the chief minister insists the decision to sack gowde was his own but now gowde has dropped a fresh
47:21bombshell claiming he was asked to resign on instructions from bjp national president jp nadda
47:30is
47:50gowde is doubling down on his attack now writing to president murmur prime minister modi and the rest
47:56of the bjp top brass to highlight his case a rebellion that is fast becoming a headache for the state bjp unit
48:03and a useful stick for the opposition to beat the government with
48:06let's say
48:07is
48:14and
48:20if there is no
48:22you
48:22you
48:23you
48:23you
48:24you
48:25you
48:25you
48:27you
48:29But the episode raises a larger question for the BJP.
48:49Is Gauri's rebellion symptomatic of a larger discontent simmer against the Goa Chief Minister?
48:56Bureau Report, India Today.
48:59Let's turn to tonight's Get Real India story.
49:03A huge controversy has erupted in UP's Ettawa where two Kathavachaks or storytellers were allegedly targeted by a group of upper caste.
49:11They're crying. They were accused of hiding their real identity.
49:14The police have arrested four suspects in the case.
49:18The incident, which is becoming a political flashpoint in the state, only tells us how deep caste divides are still in our society.
49:25Take a look at Get Real India.
49:29A viral video from Ettawa has exposed the caste divide that still exists in the society.
49:38In an incident that took place on June 21st, people allegedly belonging to upper caste cut the hair of two Kathavachaks or storytellers who had gone to Dadarpur village to recite the Bhagavata.
49:51The reason, the Kathavachaks were Yadavs, who are obeisings.
49:57Please stand on.
49:58They took place on the planet.
50:00With their name, the man took place.
50:02After that, they took the care of the man.
50:04When I took this child, the people took the test.
50:07After that, they took the job.
50:09They cut the camel's and cut our Wirri.
50:11First, the man cut the tail.
50:13Then they cut the camel's, the woman cut the cut.
50:15Then they cut the Philharachak.
50:15The Taliban took place on the Diaries.
50:16Then, they took the killing of the Imam.
50:17They left the Palestinians'
50:19The police swung into action and
50:49arrested four suspects.
50:50The stage set for the storytelling session still remains in Dadarpur.
51:19The organisers claimed the Katha Vachaks claimed to be upper caste and produced fake documents
51:27like Aadhaar Cards.
51:29While the villagers disapprove of the assault, they demand action against the Katha Vachaks
51:34to the police.
51:35We heard about the Katha Vachaks.
51:37We heard about the Katha Vachaks.
51:41The Katha Vachaks told us that we have a card.
51:45The Katha Vachaks told us that we have a card.
51:52The Katha Vachaks and their families reject the charge.
52:08They allege that the organisers targeted them, accusing them of being Dalits.
52:23The Katha Vachaks told us about the******.
52:39The incident is fast-taking political colours.
53:01Yadav groups have rallied behind the Kathawachas,
53:04who claim they have been telling stories for years.
53:09While the police are investigating the chain of events,
53:13one big truth is that ugly divisions based on caste exist even today.
53:20Bureau Report, India Today.
53:25Unacceptable darker side of this country.
53:29Let's turn to an India Today fact check now.
53:31The claim being made online,
53:33video showing Israeli police removing Indians from a bomb shelter in the Israel-Iran conflict.
53:39Actually, the fact is, the video is from anti-government protests in Israel on May 28th.
53:44It has absolutely no relation to the Iran-Israel conflict.
53:49Okay, just about enough time to leave you tonight with our image of the day.
53:55Today is the day when the Jagannath Ratyatra takes place.
53:59Devotees gathered at Puri's Jagannath Temple for Lord Jagannath's Ratyatras.
54:04The Yatra began with the three sibling deities, Lord Jagannath, Balbhadra and Goddess Subhadra.
54:09On the other hand, we also have seen the first ever Ratyatra now at the new Lord Jagannath Temple being held,
54:15which was held in West Bengal's Diga today.
54:17So, there you have, in a way, competitive Ratyatras.
54:21The original one was in Puri, the new one in Diga.
54:24Both have attracted thousands of devotees.
54:28Jai Jagannath is what I leave you with.
54:32Thanks for watching.
54:33Stay well, stay safe.
54:34Good night, Shubhra 3.
54:36Jai Hind.
54:36Namaskar.
54:49I got it.
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