i saw a pair of those towers formed into hell total devastation as as you mentioned the. winds of six hundred kilometers per hour for thirty seven hours and this is the longest such level resistance which means that we are really facing huge impacts of climate change in these hurricanes in these natural disasters they have tripled in intensity in the last in the number in the last thirty years and the economic impact as a multiplier was multiplied by five it is not clear that there is a link between climate change and this intensity multiplication and devastation caused by hurricane in the caribbean and around the world russian police have detained more than two hundred people at anti-government protests around the country in st petersburg sixty people were detained when police moved in to break up the demonstration it was one of the least twenty seven have to coincide with

president vladimir putin's sixty fifth birthday the demonstrators support opposition leader alexander and of ali who is serving a twenty day jail term those are the headlines talk to argue zero is next and i'll see you tomorrow thanks for watching but i. al jazeera i. swear every day you. would you. would see. chemical weapons it was an unprecedented moment at the united nations general assembly the president of the united states in front of other world leaders

criticizing an international agreement negotiated by another american president the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transaction the united states has ever entered and frankly that deal is in a barren spread to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it the nuclear be is a result of about ten years of posturing and two years of negotiations and unfortunately this is an illustration is going back to posture today on talk to al-jazeera iran's foreign minister responds to president trump he also discusses the geo political changes going on in the middle east from the efforts by ca's to create an independent state in iraq and the siege of qatar to the rivalry between iran and saudi arabia all of this when we sit down with iran's foreign minister mohammad zarif. let's start with iran's nuclear

issue you know what president donald trump has been saying in terms of it being a bad deal for the united states from his perspective. how seriously do you take that but i think it is. an illegal alien form statement because. certainly any deed would not be a perfect for all sides it has to be less than perfect so that also it could live with it that it has elements that we don't like it has elements that the united states doesn't like but it's not a bilateral trade it's not even a multilateral treaty it is a part of the resolution of the security council which was negotiated. in two years very difficult negotiations so i believe that the united states would be much better off if the united states agreed to abide by did the because

if it didn't the international community would never trust any commitment by the united states because. it is possible that the administration or the future administration would like to deal and i think any time you could walk away from with the war any of these i think that would be a very bad precedent now how concerned are you about when donald trump and he's our lives particularly inside the united states the republicans talk about. slapping sanctions again on the islamic republic well you see the unitas is. the policy of imposing sanctions on iran for the past forty years basically they have immunized us to u.s. sanctions but from a global perspective it seems that the united states is addicted to sanctions and

they believe they have an obsession they believe that sanctions will work in fact i think they should have learned by now that sanctions don't work you cannot impose. pressure on countries to abandon their sovereignty to abandon their dignity for a few restrictions that the united states has imposed on them i think the sooner the united states realizes that this type of behavior this type of policy is bound . to backfire and it's bound to create resistance and strengthen the resolve of the people to move pursue their own policies and their own interests. the sooner the united states achieves this important recognition of reality the sooner it can adjust its policies in a way that would even serve the interests of the united states but when you hear

these statements coming out of washington from donald trump and he's allies about the agreement not being a good one for the united states from their perspective and you hear their statements about you know reimposing the sanctions see you is that where it stops or do you also hear the war drums well i think you see that the nuclear the is a result of about ten years of posturing and two years of negotiations and unfortunately this is ministration it's going back to posturing what is important for for iran is that we have maintained our options we have a number of options inside the in and outside the that are open to us and we will exercise those options according to our national security interest. we have no control over what the united states does obviously the deal has. reduced

the options that are available to the united states there and if the united states makes the wrong decision to withdraw from that the then iran has the option of withdrawing. he has other options we'll come back in a minute to the other options is as you called them that when you listen to the statements by particularly president donald trump do you just hear the voices of u.s. foreign policy or do you also hear the voices of allies of the united states in the region the israelis and the saudis who as you know are very unhappy as they say with iran's role regionally. i see both i see parts of. certain more hard line elements within the united states talking and i also see. those regional players who were used to a smokescreen of iran or the nuclear the in order to justify their own bad

behavior their own disruptive policies policies that included violations of the rights of the palestinian people. trampling upon their most elemental right for for the past seventy years which has resulted in turmoil in our region. aggression against every country in the region by by israel a nuclear weapon policy that has continued to threaten not only the region but the global nonproliferation regime pursued again by israel and an unfortunate policy of supporting extremism and terrorism by saudi arabia that has affected our region if you look at syria if you look at yemen if you look at elsewhere in the region the unfortunate saudi posture against qatar. these are all policies that are pursued by saudi arabia have been pursued by saudi arabia and they only use the

smokescreen of iran's nuclear program as a way to hide behind it and to sort of justify their own iranians policies i guess the nuclear agreement deprive them of that smokescreen and that. they are screaming back to donald trump do you miss the days of barack obama when it comes to dealing with the administration or do you feel that ultimately donald trump is a pragmatist and he'll do the right thing from your perspective at the end of the day i think the situation inside the united states is the business of american people not ours. and whatever the american people do or don't do they were sort of enjoy or suffer the consequences for us of what is important is the global posture of the united states is global behavior it hasn't been positive it has not been conducive to stability in our region we have seen the consequences of u.s. policies in our region both historically as well as since president from took

office and i don't think they've been conducive to peace and stability in the region and i believe it is in the interests of the united states if you revisit those policies i cannot predict where that he will be a pragmatist or not but i certainly believe that the type of policy that is being pursued the type of statements that are being made certainly do not help peace and security in the region not at nor ultimately the interests of the united states you said that iran ultimately has alternatives can you outline some of those alternatives well i think the order of the day in this is ministration is to not be predictable. i want to say being unpredictable is different from being unreliable and this is ministration is proving that it can't be predicted and it can't be relied upon iran has shown that it it is a reliable partner we have implemented our side of the bargain up until now seven reports of the international atomic energy agency verify that we have lived up to

our own part of the bargain but if the united states decides to even further violate its obligations under. the payment because it has already not been faithful completely to its obligations under the agreement but if he decides to commit any material breach i was obligations and under the agreement then iran would have options options that have been. elaborated within the agreement including the option of partial or complete withdrawal from the deed as well as options that would depend on the behavior and the policies of other parties and participants in that regionally you're aware of the positions of countries such as saudi arabia for example the criticism that iran. has not been good for the stability of iraq do you see

a way out of this situation with the saudis i mean your way to points let me as a second terse yes we are willing to talk to saudi arabia about our differences we have made it clear to them since we assumed office four years ago that we were prepared to talk to them about regional situation because we do not believe that iran and saudi arabia should have the type of relations that they do have now we believe iran and saudi arabia and other countries in the region should have a cooperative arrangement so that we can augment each other's security not try to undermine the security of one another we believe that the posture in in the persian gulf or saudi arabia is not a positive one policy that it pursues against qatar other policies or saudi arabia that we believe that they need to be changed they need to be altered but through dialogue that is why we have supported the efforts of the emir of kuwait in the

saudi qatar dispute and we have always called for dialogue between countries in the region we have responded positively to every proposal to engage in dialogue including the. proposal by the emir of qatar when he was the chair of the g.c.c. and the proposal by demeter kuwait when he sent his foreign minister to iran representing the disease you see so that has been our policy ever since on your first. point. it is a matter of historical fact whose policies have been conducive to regional stability and whose policies have supported instability it was an iran that recognized the taliban as illegitimate government of afghanistan it was saudi arabia and the u.a.e. the only two countries that recognize taliban other than pakistan were saudi arabia and the u.a.e. it wasn't iran that undermined the government democratic government of iraq it was

saudi arabia we recognized the governing council we sent our ambassador to iraq immediately after the new establishments in two thousand and three saudi arabia paid to send an ambassador to iraq for at least eleven years it wasn't the iran that supported the terrorist extremist groups in syria it wasn't saudi arabia that came to the help of iraqis in erbil and then baghdad when isis invaded the country so we need to be clear about our historical rap record iran has been on the side of stability iran has been on the side of fighting terrorism and extremism for the past at least since two thousand and eleven two thousand and one we have a clear straight record of engaging in every attempt to counter terrorism

in the region and and fortunately saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have been on the wrong side the saudis and the like minded countries in the region they've heard the divisions from. iran retreated over and over again non the less they will say the islamic republic has not stopped trying to export the islamic revolution ever since the islamic revolution took place and therefore they say that that continues to destabilize all these places whether it's iraq whether it's iran whether it's lebanon on. what's the way out again let's look at the fact iran is not spending billions upon billions of dollars exporting the harveys and throughout the world it's saudi arabia look at every mask look at every incident of terrorism in the region and in the world who are behind these acts of

terrorism they're all financed both ideologically and. financially supported ideologically and financially by saudi arabia this is unfortunate iran has an idea that idea is available we have a democracy people participate in determining their fate my friend we derives our legitimacy and our security from our own people that is something that people like we are not like some who need a foreign arm bella for their security we're not like some who have to purchase their security by buying four hundred billion dollars worth of beautiful military equipment what makes iran secure what makes your own progress is the fact that we are out we rely on our own people the concepts that they are

using in order to muddy the waters in order to justify policies that have brought unfortunate disastrous consequences for our region. cannot be justified by the smokescreens of exporting revolution saudi arabia needs to stop exporting terror exporting exclusionist extremist ideology of hate is there any situation for us the islamic republic of iran where you would say yes we do understand some of the concerns that the saudis have because these are vital interests for them in iraq in syria in lebanon on in yemen and therefore because we do understand them maybe we can find some common ground or do you think that the positions of the islamic republic and saudi arabia are diametrically

opposed all along i think even if our positions are diametrically opposed we need to engage in a conversation with other countries in the region because we cannot decide for other countries in the region. with other countries in the region in order to find ways of accommodating we do not need the type of relations that we have now i do not think that these relations are. necessary i do not believe that these relations are in the interest of either iran and saudi arabia and that is why we have said all along that we are ready to talk we are ready to accommodate we are ready to address the concerns of all sides because we believe that geography cannot be changed we are bound to be neighbors we have been neighbors for centuries and we are bound to remain neighbors until eternity. it is important for us to

find ways of talking to each other to find ways of accommodating each other to find possibilities for addressing our differences through dialogue at dressing our grievances through. discussions and discourse rather than through accusations and taking. negative measures that at the end of the day the people of the region look at the situation in yemen people of yemen are paying a heavy price i do not believe that the aggression against them and the bombing of the yemenis the fact that seven hundred thousand yemeni people are suffering from colorado today i do not believe none of it is necessary and i do not believe any of it has any interest for saudi arabia or the united arab emirates i believe these countries need to look at what they have achieved over the past several years and see whether they are prepared to have to follow

a different course of action and if they did it and will be a serious partner for them what do you think the gulf crisis has done to the region you as the islamic republic as as the islamic republic we have a record of. insisting on stability on inviolability of internationally recognized borders and on non interference in the internal affairs of each other we took a strong position against the iraq invasion of kuwait if you if you remember iran condemned iraq invasion of kuwait before g.c.c. that is our position today in the region really believe that imposition trying to strangulate trying to suffocate. any country is not acceptable we would have adopted incidentally the exact same position if people were trying to do this to you eve people were trying to do. this to saudi arabia or to the same we as we

did when we opposed the invasion of kuwait or measures against that are we believe that all issues need to be settled through dialogue and through greater understanding and that is why we proposed in one thousand nine hundred eighty six that we are stablish a regional security mechanism in the persian gulf we are still prepared for that we believe that security council resolution five nine eight which and the date on iraq war provides us with a brain will put doing that and we have called upon our neighbors to engage in that effort and we believe the sooner we start engaging each other the more crises we can prevent we have gone through many crises unfortunately the after the iran iraq war we've seen the iraq invasion of kuwait the iraq war the advent of terrorism and extremism in the region u.s. invasion of iraq we have seen the difficulties between qatar saudi arabia and

others we have seen other incidents of. instability and turmoil in our region so the sooner we start discussing these issues around the negotiating table the better we are in preventing further escalation and further eruptions in the region there are people who feel that the countries that have imposed a blockade in the gulf they've pushed the qataris. into the arms of iran isn't that a good thing for the islamic republic in the region no. really you see the problems in the region are all like that they. complain about our influence in iraq they complain about our influence in syria all of it happened just like the situation in qatar they adopted wrong policies we took the right side

and that created influence for iran it's not our choice we don't like what's happening in iraq we don't like what's happening in syria we don't like what's happening between qatar and saudi arabia and the u.a.e. because we believe that what is happening is injurious to the region and whatever the harms the stability of our region harms us because we have major part of this region so while we opened our ports and our airspace to our brothers in tatter what we would have done exactly the same had the united arab emirates been threatened we are not happy with it because we believe that these issues need to be settled through peaceful means we believe that nobody should try to bully others we believe that differences need to be resolved around the negotiating table not through these measures now the kurds have voted in the referendum what does the referendum now

spell to you as the islamic republic of iran having your own kurdish community in in iran but also looking at other kurds throughout the middle east well. again this our policy with regard to the referendum is driven by our quest to see stability in the region we have been and will continue to be eternal friends of the kurds we have our own kurdish population with whom we have excellent relations and we've had excellent relations with the k r g in. in iraq as i said we we were the first to go to their help when they were being attacked and under the threat of occupation by by dash what we consider the referendum first of all to be unconstitutional against iraqi constitution and we believe it would

create instability dangerous instability inside iraq and at the end of the day it would not serve the interests about iraq a kurdish friends who have gained a lot since the removal of saddam hussein and can even gain more through negotiations within the framework of the constitutional legitimacy in iraq that is what we have called for and we believe that a planned on was an imprudent decision going on the opposite way of what would be in the interest of the region and our kurdish friends they have a right to have their own state ever the kurds i believe this issue is a the issue of regional stability and regional security and it is important for. our friends in in iraq various communities in iraq to come together and maintain territorial integrity and national unity of iraq

which is an important arab state an important region a state it is important in our region to respect the boundaries to respect the unity and territorial integrity of all the state in the region otherwise we would be facing situations that would be very difficult to control and would harm the interests of all communities particularly the communities in iraq. one is the thank you so much thank you. nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war was at its height a u.s. spy ship the u.s.s. liberty monitored the conflict from international waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of america's closest regional manager israel over two hundred were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just red with blood what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery now the truth can be

revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation at this time on al-jazeera. sometimes feel like we're really looking into the hearts and the so of those directly involved in advance taking place very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who've been affected you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a generation past like and often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from. in the heart of the amazon the libyan families but their lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to

libya. at this time on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. and selection break. from. the street. and the story builds steam jobs much better marketeers than bill gates when people need to be heard they thought they were american until they broke the law now they're deported to cambodia al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the model and ward winning documentary and live news on at and on line. this is al-jazeera.