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President Trump announced a five-day postponement of military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, citing 'constructive conversations' and ongoing talks aimed at a broader agreement.
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00:00Hello and welcome. You're watching India Today Global.
00:03Big breaking news coming in at the top of this bulletin.
00:06President Trump has spoken yet again on the West Asian crisis.
00:11Breaking news coming in.
00:13Trump says discussions underway with Iran.
00:16Despite Iran and Iranian parliament's speaker having come out and rejected claims of negotiations,
00:25Trump says discussions with Iran to determine whether broader agreement can be reached.
00:29He's also said we've eliminated everything there is to eliminate in Iran, including leaders.
00:35That's the big breaking news that's coming in.
00:39President Trump is speaking right now. Let's just cut across to the president.
00:44$5 billion reduction in ICE in order to get the approval on a deal that they approved,
00:51the great big beautiful deal, which is the biggest tax cut in history, the biggest regulation cut in history.
00:57They want to basically renegotiate a deal that they already approved.
01:01And they're doing it for largely for a criminal element.
01:06So also the Democrats are putting our country at great risk during this period of time,
01:13a period that they call a war.
01:14They call it a war.
01:15We call it a military operation.
01:18Their leaders during this time are, as you know, as you want to say, they're in a never-never land.
01:27Schumer is gone.
01:28I mean, he's a Palestinian.
01:29He should be fighting on the side of Palestine.
01:32He's actually become a Palestinian leader.
01:35I don't know.
01:36I've never seen a man change so much.
01:38He used to be pro-Israel.
01:40Now he's pro-Palestine.
01:41And I've never seen anything like it.
01:42And, you know, he's worried he's going to lose his next election, which it only depends if anybody runs against
01:48him.
01:48If anybody runs against him, he'll lose.
01:51But he's gone very wacky and very dangerous for our country.
01:57But we want all of those things.
01:59We have to have them.
02:00We want voter ID.
02:01We want proof of citizenship as part of our funding.
02:04We want to merge them so that we can get the great, big, beautiful bill in action and we can
02:09get the America and Save America.
02:14You know, they called it the Save Act, but nobody knew what the Save Act was.
02:18So I said, you have to call it, you have to, under any circumstances, you have to call it the
02:24Save America Act, because everybody knows what that is.
02:29So they want funding taken away from the ICE patriots who are responsible for getting rid of the criminals that
02:37Sleepy Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country, and his gang of thugs in the White
02:43House.
02:44You talk about weaponization.
02:46They weaponized everybody.
02:47You know, when we even look, when Pam looks at somebody, oh, it's weaponization.
02:53They've indicted me, what they've done to me and everybody else, it's a disgrace.
02:59They're the weaponizers, and what they've done to people, we can never let that happen again.
03:04We can never let them get away with it again.
03:06They are the greatest weaponizers.
03:09Fortunately, it didn't work, because here I am with you.
03:13So it didn't work out too well.
03:17It didn't work out too well.
03:22But they want to have people come into our country.
03:24And so many of these people are murderers.
03:27They're drug dealers.
03:28They're the worst criminals anywhere in the world.
03:30They want them in our country.
03:32They don't want them to come out.
03:34They make it almost impossible, but we get them out anyway.
03:37They should have never been allowed to enter our sacred ground.
03:41These people should have never.
03:42They came from all over the world.
03:44They came from all over.
03:47They came from the Congo and Africa.
03:49They came from all over South America, Asia, everywhere.
03:53And they were from jails and mental institutions.
03:57They were drug dealers.
03:58They were murderers.
03:5911,888 murderers.
04:03In any event, the Democrats are being blamed by the American people for the catastrophe going on right now at
04:10our airports
04:11and at other points of transportation and beyond.
04:15And we want the public to know we're not going to let them out of this trap that they created
04:20for themselves.
04:21And I'm suggesting very strongly that the Republicans, in going for the Save America Act, that you weld it into
04:30exactly this.
04:31Because voter ID is part of homeland security.
04:36Think of it.
04:37We're talking about two separate items, but they're really the same.
04:41Voter ID is part of homeland security.
04:44And citizenship, proof of citizenship, is part of homeland security.
04:49So I think it should be welded in.
04:51I think it should be together.
04:53You should vote together.
04:54Because the public has not liked what they've done at the airports.
04:59And they've done it, and the public understands it.
05:01They've gotten wise to them.
05:03Republicans do not settle with Democrats and let them out of this hole that they've buried themselves in.
05:10You have to take the votes in the Senate to approve.
05:14You need votes to approve.
05:16We have to get Democrat votes.
05:17And at a certain point, if you could get rid of the filibuster, it would be great.
05:21It would be great.
05:23Get rid of the filibuster and get it all done.
05:25So we'll get it done.
05:27We want another thing.
05:28We can, or we don't have to, add those other items.
05:33And by the way, they say they're 80-20 items.
05:36They're not 80-20.
05:37They're 99-1.
05:39Men playing in women's sports is a 99-1.
05:43When you look at transgender mutilization of our children, that's a 99-1.
05:48Well, that's President Trump speaking at one of the events where he specifically said that this is an opportunity for
05:58Iran and U.S. to negotiate and talk.
06:01And they're looking at maybe reaching a further agreement between the two sides at a time when Iran has rejected
06:08any kind of talks or conversation with the United States of America, saying that there have been no such talks.
06:16This also comes at a time when he's spoken largely about how he wants to control the Strait of Hormuz,
06:23but also has declared a ceasefire, temporary ceasefire.
06:27Ali Al-Azadeh, London-based political analyst and news presenter of Jadal TV, joins me for more on this.
06:35Ali, thank you so much for giving us time.
06:38Let's begin with what President Trump has said.
06:40He's spoken in detail, and I am a little befuddled for somebody who's been tracking the news for some time
06:47now, that he says the Strait of Hormuz can be controlled by him and the next Ayatollah.
06:54So what's the end game here?
06:55There's no end game.
06:58Donald Trump entered this war with a delusion based on wrong analysis and information pushed to White House by Israeli
07:09think tankers and Israeli influencers in Washington, thinking Iranian state will be toppled in 48 hours, thinking by assassinating Ayatollah
07:21Ali Khamenei,
07:22the rest of Iranian state men will fold in and will surrender.
07:27And now on day 23, when oil has gone up to an unprecedented price and is a massive delay on
07:34supply chain, global supply chain, and the effect of the economic effect will soon be hitting United States market economy
07:44and will be translated in Trump's massive loss in the next midterm election.
07:49He's just going from one side to another side.
07:52In the morning, he threatens that he will destroy and obliterate all Iranian power stations.
07:59A day later, he backs off and says he's not going to do that.
08:02And he has been talking to some Iranian authorities.
08:05Which Iranian authorities?
08:06He's making up fairy tales.
08:09Iran has been saying it from day one that we'll not stop this fight and this defense until it has
08:15revived its deterrence and has received some reparation from the United States and has made sure that the country cannot
08:23be invaded again for the foreseeable future.
08:26The reason for that is very simple.
08:30The reason for that is very simple.
08:32Because if Iran stops now, if Iran makes any negotiation, we'll be left with a half-destroyed country and still
08:41the sanctions are there.
08:42And then in six months, Israel will attack Iran again.
08:45So Iran, based on the rules of raw politics, has to continue this war until American and Israel do not
08:52dare to attack Iran for at least five to ten years.
08:55Well, Ali, that's a very important point that you're making.
08:58But what's the pressure point over here?
09:00Power plants now see, there's a relief that power plants will not be attacked.
09:05But that comes after Iran said, should Iranian power plant and energy infrastructure be attacked, the GCC is going to
09:12face the wrath of Iran.
09:14Is that the pressure point?
09:15Did the Saudis and the Qataris and UAE get to Trump administration saying, or Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff saying,
09:24stay away from power plants?
09:27I mean, basically they say in English, if you are sitting in a glass house, do not throw stones.
09:32And that's been the mistake that Trump has been doing from day one.
09:35Iran does not rely on its power plants as much.
09:39Iran has a very decentralized power grid.
09:41The biggest Iranian power station only produces 2% of Iran's electricity, whereas the same in Israel is 20%.
09:50And also, if Iran destroys the power plants of the Persian Gulf countries, all the water salination depends on that.
09:58For example, in a country like Kuwait, 90% of water comes from water salination.
10:03Oman is 86%.
10:05Israel is 70%.
10:06In Iran is 2%.
10:08So, in a sense, if Donald Trump wants to go and obliterate Iran's power grid, he's welcome to do that.
10:14Iran will continue surviving.
10:15But all his vessel states in the region, including Israel, will not be able to survive for a week.
10:21So, I think he did it in a style of Trump in which he comes in a spontaneous way, create
10:28this, like, kind of tweets.
10:31And then his advisor told him that he has to back up from that.
10:33Another theory, which has been very strong in the last couple of hours, is that maybe he's been trying to
10:40manipulate the market.
10:42Because, you know, in these ups and downs of the market, billions are being handed from one side to another
10:47side.
10:48Those who are, like, making bets on the market are making billions.
10:51And some people say maybe his own echelons and his own kind of very close circle, who knew about that,
10:58they are filling their own pockets.
11:01Okay.
11:01There are two theories.
11:03One, you just said, that the energy markets, he says it on Monday, a five-day ceasefire.
11:08Friday, the markets close.
11:10Oil maybe stabilizes a little.
11:12Is that what you're looking at?
11:13Is that what you're seeing?
11:14Or are we looking at this being an unsustainable war and Trump looking for an exit?
11:21He's defining his victory already.
11:23He just said that they've eliminated everything they had to and that they are now in talks for a halt.
11:30As I said, Iran has no negotiation to do with the United States.
11:34And there's another party here, which is very important, as Israel.
11:37So far, the United States has learned a lesson and has realized that attacking Iran has been much more costly
11:44than they initially estimated,
11:47while Israel hasn't been hit enough yet.
11:50Israel has been enjoying these last 23 days, has been destroying and degrading a lot of Iran's military and intelligence
11:58power.
11:59And in response, Israel hasn't been hit hard yet.
12:03Iran has been focusing on destroying radars and then depleting United States and Israel's anti-air missiles.
12:12And only now, in the last two days, Iranian missile has been hitting more comfortably in Israel.
12:17So at least we have to look at another two, three or four weeks of this war until Israel is
12:23hit adequately, that it creates some deterrence.
12:26Otherwise, I don't think Israel will be stopping its aggression against Iran.
12:33So, in a sense, it doesn't matter what Trump wants.
12:36Unless Trump can act independently and push Netanyahu further away and say, enough Israel first, I'm focusing on America first,
12:47I don't think this war will stop anytime soon.
12:49Okay, you've made a great distinction between America first and Israel first.
12:53But is there also another theory, Ali, that's doing the rounds, is that this is a decoy, that America is
13:00buying time.
13:01They've already sent their amphibious strike groups to the war theater.
13:07One has reached Indian Ocean, the other has left San Diego.
13:11Are they buying time?
13:14They can, that's another possibility.
13:17But let me just ask you, what are all these clever games and all these decoys have bought for Trump?
13:23Let's go for the biggest one, which was negotiating with Iran while they were preparing to assassinate Ayatollah Khamenei.
13:31As someone who's been working in Iran for the last 15 years, I tell you, the biggest mistake anyone has
13:37ever done, politically and militarily, was assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei,
13:41which they fight him, turned him into a supernational hero and united the country.
13:48Anything short of assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei wouldn't have allowed Iran to fight so hard these days, would go for a
13:56strait of hormones and act in a fearless way.
13:59So that decoy turned up, that decoy backfired really badly.
14:04And this decoy will backfire as well, because Iranians have been very clear, they are waiting for American Marines.
14:11Iranians are experts in guerrilla ground warfare.
14:15They've been practicing in Syria's civil war.
14:18They've been practicing in that eight years war with Iraq in 1980s.
14:21So if there is a strong point for Iranian army and IRGC, it's the guerrilla warfare on the ground.
14:28It's the experience on the ground, which American soldiers do not have.
14:33And they don't know the geography.
14:35I think one of these problems here is like United States and Trump's absolute lack of familiarity with Iranian geography,
14:41because it doesn't matter how many F-certifiers they have.
14:46You can close a strait of hormones with like a handful of people, a handful of young men with an
14:51RPG, with a kind of rocket propeller on their shoulders.
14:54Same for like Hark Island and other things.
14:56So it's like this is the talk of Donald Trump, who's been watching too much Hollywood movies.
15:02And we've seen the last 23 days, these scenarios do not work against Iran.
15:07And I'm very surprised that they haven't learned the lesson from the last 23 days.
15:12They are insisting to continue the same patterns again.
15:16Well, Ali Alizadeh, thank you so much.
15:18You've been a refreshing change when it comes to clarity in how you've put things.
15:23Now I will actually go and look at what the power plants look like and how decentralized Iran's power plant
15:30is.
15:30Ali, thank you so much.
15:32Thank you very much for inviting me.
15:37President Donald Trump has paused strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure,
15:42a temporary halt for five days, citing ongoing talks, though Tehran has denied these negotiations.
15:49As the conflict intensifies, China and Russia urge restraint and dialogue.
15:53Maheshwet Alala with this report.
15:56Hey, Tehran, you are fired.
15:58You are familiar with this sentence.
16:00Thank you for your attention to this matter.
16:12As the world awaited the repercussions for President Trump's 48-hour deadline
16:17to open the Hormuz or bear the brunt with the destruction of Iranian power plants,
16:21a post on Truth Social turned all heads around.
16:24President Trump in his post said, and I quote,
16:27Regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,
16:32based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed and constructive conversations,
16:37which will continue throughout the week,
16:39I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants
16:46and energy infrastructure for a five-day period,
16:49subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.
16:54I think they'll be very happy.
16:56This will be peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace.
17:00If this happens, and I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to,
17:04my life is a deal.
17:06That's all I do is a deal my whole life.
17:08I think this is something that's going to happen.
17:11And why wouldn't it happen?
17:12So tomorrow morning sometime, their time,
17:17we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plant
17:23that cost over $10 billion to build.
17:26It's a very good one.
17:29Though Iran's foreign ministry has denied of any negotiations between both the countries.
17:35The Iranian media, however, attributed the post to Trump's fear of Iran's retaliation.
17:42This comes as Trump last week in another post talked about winding down military efforts in the Middle East.
17:49Trump had also dismissed any talks on ceasefire too.
17:53So is it a strategic decision or pressure tactic from U.S. allies that led to this decision?
18:00U.S. along with Israel during the 12-day war last year
18:03had struck the Iranian nuclear facilities while maintaining dialogue with their Iranian counterparts.
18:10This year too, the war started as talks were first held in Oman's capital musket and later in Geneva.
18:17So for now, it's a wait and watch situation.
18:23China, which is trying to project itself as peacemaker,
18:26has called out to all the parties to cease military action and put an end to the vicious cycle.
18:33The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are continuing to spread and escalate.
18:37If the conflict continues to widen and intensify, the entire region will descend into an unmanageable situation.
18:43The use of force will only lead to a vicious cycle.
18:46China strongly urges the parties involved to immediately cease military operations,
18:51return to dialogue and negotiation and prevent this war,
18:53which should never have begun in the first place, from continuing any further.
18:58Russia too has cautioned attacks on nuclear plants and called out for dialogue.
19:06We consider strikes on nuclear facilities to be potentially extremely dangerous
19:11and fraught with potentially irreparable consequences.
19:14Therefore, the Russian side taking an extremely responsible position on this issue
19:19has repeatedly expressed its concerns.
19:21We believe that the situation should have transitioned to a political and diplomatic settlement as early as yesterday.
19:27This is the only thing that can effectively contribute to diffusing the catastrophically tense situation
19:33that has now developed in the region.
19:38Meanwhile, as war rages on,
19:40four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organization in North London
19:44were set ablaze overnight.
19:46British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it a deeply shocking anti-Semitic arson attack.
19:52An Iran-aligned multinational militant collective
19:55claimed responsibility for the attack.
19:58However, Starmer dismissed that mainland Britain was being targeted by Iran.
20:04Well, look, we carry out assessments all the time in order to keep us safe.
20:08And there's no assessment that we're being targeted in that way at all.
20:12But of course, it's my job to ensure that British interests, British lives are always uppermost in my mind.
20:18What we need here is de-escalation.
20:22And that's why we had a statement from a number of countries last week
20:26about what we need to do about the Straits of Hormuz,
20:28which obviously needs careful coordination and a viable plan.
20:32But it's very important we defend our interests, we defend British lives.
20:36Iran had struck southern Israel on late Saturday,
20:40not far from Israel's main nuclear research centre.
20:44Research workers said the direct hit caused widespread damage
20:48across at least 10 apartment buildings,
20:50three of them badly damaged and in danger of collapsing.
20:54At least 64 people were taken to hospitals.
21:07Cuba restored power to much of Havana within a day after a major grid collapse,
21:12bringing electricity back to over half the city and key facilities.
21:17Meanwhile, Cuba signaled willingness to hold talks with the United States of America
21:21without outside interference,
21:23rejected any changes to its political system
21:25and received international humanitarian support
21:28as an aid ship headed from Mexico.
21:37Cuba had restored power to nearly half of the capital Havana by Sunday afternoon,
21:42less than 24 hours after the national grid collapsed for the second time in a week.
21:47Nearly 500,000 homes and businesses in Havana,
21:51approximately 55% of the total, as well as 43 hospitals, were back online.
22:00At this moment, power has been restored from Pinar del Rio province to Santiago de Cuba.
22:07Throughout the day, Unit 1 of the Havana Thermoelectric Plant,
22:10Unit No. 4 of the Sinfugos Thermoelectric Plant,
22:13and the Guitras Unit have been reconnected.
22:17At this moment, all essential facilities are receiving service from the system.
22:24Meanwhile, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Havana would be open to a serious and responsible dialogue with the U
22:32.S.
22:32but emphasized it would be without interference in internal affairs.
22:37Rodriguez made the comments during the CELAC summit,
22:41a meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,
22:45a regional block of 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries that excludes the U.S. and Canada.
22:54We will also be willing to engage in a serious and responsible dialogue with the U.S. government,
23:00without interference in internal affairs or in the respective political, economic and social systems.
23:08Cuba had earlier rejected any suggestion that its political system or the term of its president
23:14was subject to negotiation in talks with the United States,
23:18following reports that Washington sought to remove Cuban president Miguel DÃaz-Canel from power.
23:25A vessel carrying humanitarian aid was sent from the Mexican port bound for Cuba
23:30as part of a growing international effort to support the island amid a severe energy and economic crisis.
23:38Mahashweta Lala, Bureau Report, India Today.
23:47The U.S. has opened too many fronts, but for now the focus remains on the five-day ceasefire on
23:52energy infrastructure in Iran.
23:55We'll have to wait and see how that really turns out, not just for Iran, but for West Asia.
24:00With that, it's a close of the show.
24:02Thank you so much for watching.
24:03Goodbye.
24:04Take care.
24:10Bye.
24:12Bye.
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