 Hello and welcome to NewsClick, I am Neelam Gaur and we are bringing you a glimpse of some of the most important stories we report about at NewsClick. Since that, Rafale is going to be a bigger story than any other previous scam that this government has been accused of, a series of exclusives published by the leading newspaper The Hindu has put a big question mark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's anti-corruption promise. As per the reports, a Ministry of Defence note had raised many objections to parallel negotiations conducted by the Prime Minister's office with the French side. The note further stated that PMO's elite involvement had weakened the negotiating position of the Defence Ministry and the Indian negotiating team. In the latest letter obtained by the Hindu, the PMO's role in proceeding off Rafale deal has been further questioned. As per the report, before signing the deal, Modi government had waived off critical provisions for corruption penalties and making off payments through an escrow account as suggested by Sudhanshu Mohinti, the then financial adviser for Defence. In view of the fact that the file had to be submitted to Rakshamanthi immediately, he said that it was prudent to involve the French government as far as release was concerned in a case such as this, where the Intergovernmental Agreement was yet to be signed and the sovereign and bank guarantee was absent from the financial point of view. This would have made the French government morally and materially responsible for the procurement, but the Parikar-led D.A.C. approved eight changes in the I.G.A., leaving no room to make the French government answerable. And our second story is from Rajdhani, Delhi, where Shikchak Vibhaggarao protested against the Point Roaster and Vibhagghar Proster. This march was headed towards the UGC, where the Delhi Police took the protesters into custody. In fact, for the past year, Shikchak Vibhagghar Roaster has been fighting against the Roaster. At the beginning of this fight, it was made in March by the Ilaabad High Court in which the court told the Ilaabad High Court that rather than giving protection to the Roaster, Vibhagghar Proster was given the right to agree with the decision. The Ilaabad High Court itself had filed a special live petition against the Ilaabad High Court, but the Supreme Court also abolished the petition. After which, Shikchak was asking the government to end the 13 Point Roaster and apply for the old constitution. In our international segment, we are talking about the Middle East Policy Bill which was passed by the U.S. Senate last week. The bill issued a strong review to U.S. President Donald Trump over his decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. The bill also included a provision that allows state and local government to withhold contracts from companies, individuals that participated in the boycott, disinvestment and sanctions movement against Israel. Omar Baddar, Deputy Director of Arab American Institute, said that significantly larger number of no votes was a sign of recognition of the growing support for Palestine's rights and evolution of public opinion on the issue of Israel and Palestine.