perspective is the only represents benefit culture in this and catalonia last fight at this time on al-jazeera wild. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time. how much is iraq. i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions. the world powers lash out at dawn trump's attempt to dismantle the landmark nuclear

deal. i'm sammy's a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out. of the subsequent rape of my wife not as a lone action by one guard but as drummer of a family held hostage by groups in pakistan for five years a call for safety for a hanger refugees from former u.n. chief kofi annan plus. i'm hardly tacit appointing find out why some people in the town of cub way feel like they're being flown a point. where begin with world wide criticism of the decision by u.s. president donald trump to decertify a deal on iran's nuclear program trump says that iran has not lived up to the two

thousand and five agreement which restricts iran's nuclear activities. in exchange for the lifting of sanctions iran's president has the rouhani has responded to trump speech he called it a pile of delusional allegations and the leaders of france germany and britain all warning the u.s. against undermining the accord given how he reports now from washington d.c. he's often threatened to tear out the landmark deal with iran but in the end u.s. president donald trump stopped short of pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen agreement to limit its nuclear program for now and even though his own administration has twice certified that iran is complying with the deal he now says he won't do it again i am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification. we will not continue down

a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear breakout that is why i am directing my administration to work closely with congress for months trump has accused his predecessor barack obama of being myopic in negotiations with iran focusing only on iran's nuclear program but not the financing of groups trump says are causing instability in the region the president has directed the u.s. congress to potentially revamp u.s. law to set up tough new standards. if iran by a late arbitrary trigger point lifted sanctions could be put back in place senate republicans are already drafting legislation supported by top democrats who have always viewed the twenty fifteen deal as somewhat imperfect we're saying if they're not in compliance we're all with together on this where i am the administration

also has its sights on another ronnie and target the country's revolutionary guard new u.s. treasury sections are being imposed which donald trump says are long overdue critics say these actions put international relations at risk and could spell the end of the deal painstakingly negotiated over more than a decade this deal was working it was delivering the iranians were living up to it the i.a.e.a. certified eight times in iran was at hearing today deal trump took a perfectly working deal and transformed it into a crisis with the decision that he made today donald trump has shifted u.s. iran policy and he's not entirely ruling out with drawing from the agreement all together and make sure that the deal is terrible but for all his tough talk against iran donald trump has for now taken little action ceding that responsibility to the u.s. congress to take the next steps or none at all kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington

. harvey is in the iranian capital tehran for us from the range perspective what options are they looking at right now saying. well sami is the crux of all this are two chief points now that the iranian government is going to be looking at rouhani speech last night during the president's speech covered a long list of issues he touched on every criticism that came from president trump but really one of the key points that he focused on was iranian stiff iran's defensive capabilities when it comes to their own regional security the missiles program has been a a thorn in the side of the white house so to speak and something that they've long criticized but the iranian president made the argument that iran has a long history of experiencing aggressive behavior by its neighbors as well as by the united states he reminded people in last night's speech that it was the cia.

the central intelligence agency that backed a coup that toppled the democratically elected government here in one thousand fifty three in one thousand nine hundred eight a passenger airliner was shot down by a u.s. warship in the one nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war the united states actually backed saddam hussein so rouhani very strongly defended the country's missiles program let's listen to some of what he had to say. are you worried about it. what about those weapons you give every day to aggressor countries i know targeting of the oppressed people of yemen with planes and bombs that you built yourself you don't have any protest about those weapons and that's aggression and you targeted our oil platforms you are always the aggressor in this region are weapons of defending ourselves we have always been determined and today we are more determined to defend ourselves how the local people feel about what's happening when you speak to them zain. well we've had

a chance to speak to several iranians who have said they know that their country is no utopia but iran's problems are its own to resolve and they are not welcoming any sort of external criticism and just to give you a sense of some of the headlines in this morning's paper what iranian people will be waking up to. this is one of the more conservative newspapers it's often critical of the iranian government as well and it's saying that trump in his efforts to decertify the nuclear deal has in fact saved the deal so a little bit of. irony there another one here a lot of people here feel that trump's versions of iranian history are very revisionist so this headline stating the illiterate dictator calling trump illiterate for his lack of awareness or perspective on iranian history a little bit of a face off here between the leaders of the united states and iran a dramatic. image there and this one. an

animated version of something we've seen of trump before a photo of him we've seen before saying that he's just nagging so wide variety of opinions on the u.s. stance views of iran and a lot of them feel that trump's remarks in recent weeks have hit at national pride in the country and certainly they feel that the united states at least the white house doesn't see iran the way it sees itself as a country that can be negotiated with and not just dealt with through the threat of sanctions or force. thanks so much. more in international concerns about the future of that nuclear deal from mike hanna at the united nations. the security council went about its daily business discussing me and mine a closed session but the abrasive speech by president trump certainly resonated in this building please raise the iran deal was codify did

a security council resolution back in two thousand and fifteen at a time the u.s. and the u.n. had different leaders of what has been agreed by the united states and european union. germany when you write you must be fully implemented it is very important to you i'm sorry to see what is now happening with diplomats of today are sorry to be are concerned by some of the implications of the statement because we stand by the joint conference of plan of action we judge it to be a good deal which helps improve international security and we want to see it continue to remain in force others argue the u.s. cannot unilaterally amend a security council resolution and it is not a bilateral agreement it does not belong to any single country and it is not

up to any single country to terminate it it is a multilateral agreement which was unanimously endorsed by the united nations security council resolution twenty two thirty one and the leaders in germany france and the united kingdom added their concern for the deal formerly known as a joint comprehensive plan of action they say preserving the j.c. p.o.a.'s in our shared national security interest the nuclear deal was a culmination of thirteen years of diplomacy and was a major step towards ensuring that iran's nuclear program is not diverted for military purposes the leaders added that they were worried and willing to act over iran's ballistic missile program and what they described as its regional activities . iran has sent a formal letter of protest to the u.n. secretary general it says the islamic republic of iran will not be the first to withdraw from the deal but if its rights and interests in the deal on not respected

it will stop implementing all its commitments and will resume its peaceful nuclear program without any restrictions the greatest concern that iran itself withdraws from the deal shifting what was an internationally monitored and restrained nuclear process back into the darkness mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. family freed after being held hostage for five years of return to canada from pakistan joshua boyle and his american wife were seized by the taliban length hakani group while hiking in afghanistan i've been speaking of their ordeal i was in afghanistan helping the most neglected minority group in the world those ordinary villagers who live deep inside taliban controlled afghanistan where no ngo no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary help. the stupidity and the evil of the

haqqani network kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife engaged in helping ordinary villagers in taliban controlled regions of afghanistan was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorizing the murder of my infant daughter martyr boil as retaliation for my repeated refusal to accept an offer that the criminal miscreants of the haqqani network had made. to me the parents of caitlin calm and say they're relieved that daughter has returned home. it was incredible and you know i've been waiting to hear that voice for so long and hear her voice. and have it sound exactly like the last time i talked to you know taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place to me and the kind of person that i am it's unconscionable.

former u.n. secretary general kofi annan is calling on me and not to ensuring the refugees can safely return to their homes more than half a million are in neighboring bangladesh trying to escape that military crackdown in iraq and state kofi annan is chairman of an international commission on the state was established by the million man government international community is prepared to engage me a month and work on a common road map used in the reported there are kind state commissioners to bases and to go for move forward together and gave them on all the range of issues we have recommended and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are going to have a long term history and problem not be in the region which can be very serious

down the line the u.k.'s ambassador to the spoke out against what he calls ethnic cleansing i think we have all been appalled by the scale of this manmade tragedy that began with the despicable attacks by the ira can redeem your salvation army on the twenty fifth of august and we will win second by the massive and disproportionate response from the burmese security authorizes which is left countless dead and over half a million homeless it's hard to deny that this targeted violence is anything other than ethnic cleansing of the rohingya muslims from rakhine state. well still to come on i'll just hear a turkey sends more troops across the syrian border to help implement so-called the escalations deal and colombia's vice president tries to ease tension in the country's southwest where farmers were killed by police last week.

from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello that is now very warm for many of us across europe you can see on the satellite picture very little in the way of cloud chris many pause this is where the warmer weather is because still see the cloud tumbling its way across the northern parts of europe and then just toppling down the eastern part as well so still rather wet and windy for many of us here still feeling very autumnal here but for the rest of us very warm very sunny and that's the way it's going to stay over the next few days in fact if anything those temperatures are going to be rising so paris up around twenty three degrees and for some vienna around twenty two now for the other side of the mediterranean here plenty of sunshine as well but we are seeing a few areas of cloud that's mostly over parts of morocco that's gradually tracking its way north was just in the south western parts of portugal bringing us a few showers here still despite that rebuts it should stay dry and thirty degrees

will be our maximum temperature on sunday also fine unsettled for the east as well because see the winds generally drifting down from the north and that will ensure that along this northern coast it's not too hot at the moment a bit further towards the south plenty of showers it gradually tracking their way towards the west but now they are just edging the little bit further south as well so more of us here getting away with a draw a picture we're just seeing a few showers towards the south. the weather sponsored by cats on race. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with with every day but the message is a simplistic you have the brain a good logical rational crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on

al-jazeera. you're watching out zero time to recap the headlines now world leaders are criticizing the u.s. president's decision to decertify the nuclear deal with iran. iran's president has . trump is making a pile of delusional allegations family freed after being held hostage in pakistan for five years has returned to canada joshua boyle and his wife was seized by the taliban linked group while hiking in afghanistan. former u.n. chief kofi annan is calling on me and now to ensure the refugees can safely return

home more than half a million are in neighboring bangladesh trying to escape military crackdown. and heads a commission appointed by me among last year to look into the problems in the state . more turkish troops have entered syria's northern province after a cross border deployment began two days ago about twenty armored vehicles across the border to join troops already inside syria they were inspected by turkey's top general before moving to take part in forcing the deescalation zone deal. following developments from. turkey syria border. there were clashes between syrian rebel groups and the kurdish factions near the border with those glasses could give us an indication of what might happen in the near future so basically we have. taken positions. that's not far from areas under the control of the why p.g.

. fashions but also you have. also. position of those areas the potential of confrontation. the kurdish faction is really. because he still maintains that it won't allow kurdish factions to maintain a presence in all the border with the country as we are having these developments on the border with turkey there are also some interesting developments in the uk. where the syrian government is moving from the south kurdish factions moving from the north are trying to take control of their arsenal. and as the fighting intensifies thousands of civilians are still caught in the fighting and thousands more things for their safety but the problem is that when they leave they face very tough conditions in makeshift camps u.s. defense secretary james mattis is urging iraqi and kurdish peshmerga forces to

remain focused on defeating eisel because this regional government has accused iraqi forces of preparing to seize kurdish held on oil fields near kirkuk charles stratford has more from a deal in northern iraq the kurdish regional government or k r g says iraqi government troops and shia militia forces have moved closer to their peshmerga positions the peshmerga have controlled kirkuk and surrounding area since two thousand and fourteen after defending it against eisele when the iraqi army fled but kirkuk one of iraq's two main oil producing regions is disputed the peshmerga say they will not withdraw and will defend the city and its oil at any cost. large numbers of popular mobilisation forces and other iraqi forces have arrived in this area south of cook this is dangerous and threatens war we did not come here to fight the iraqi army but if any forces try to

overcome our front lines we will stand up to them and. the iraqi prime minister hydrilla body denies u.s. forces have moved into the area to take control of the oil fields from the peshmerga. forces cannot and will not attack our citizens whether arab or can he said it's been more than two weeks since the kurds celebrated the referendum on secession from iraq since then turkey says it will gradually take control of its land border neighboring iran has made similar threats. the federal government has banned international flights to and from the kurdish region of iraq and a federal court has issued arrest warrants for members of the kayla g.'s electoral commission and now the k r g says it is under straight from the same forces it worked with to defeat eisel in northern iraq the peshmerga say they have

voluntarily withdrawn from an area south of kirkuk in order to ease tension with nearby iraq eat government forces but with sounds of pressure being deployed to kirkuk and neither the k r g all the baghdad government willing to talk face to face unconditionally about the results of the controversial referendum there are mounting phase of a potential new conflict in northern iraq stops at al-jazeera at a bill. yes austria's anti immigrant freedom party has ended its election campaign with a rally in vienna immigration has been a major issue ahead of sunday's vote the party's leader christians cuse the government coalition of trying to swap out austrian people for muslims the election is being held a year early after the break up of a coalition government social democrats and the people's party. colombia's vice president is trying to ease tension by visiting the village where six protesting

farmers were killed by police last week rallying against the government's efforts to eradicate the cocoa plant which is the base of the drug cocaine. anger and resentment of farmers in the village of confront colombia's vice president. if you don't stop forced eradication what will happen they'll be more dead farmers. as you know we demand infrastructure education health not band aid solutions we want concrete things we do not agree with force eradication. engines mean high here after entertainer police allegedly killed six farmers a week ago in an eradication protest. this used to be a fight rebel territory it's the first time that a high level government official travels here to speak to people for whom this

state has been synonymous with military force. the government doesn't come here to have a picture taken nor do we come here to say that our farmers are terrorists we've been clear in saying that illicit crops instead of making you rich have just kept you in poverty and are exposing you to more and more risks the government needs to protect you and the system you. yet this community has not signed up to the government crop substitution program part of the peace deal with five gravels people here remain skeptical of the government's ability to help in farmer at orlando's barber says he tried switching to call called. for charcoal but it didn't go well not to so much when a plant we tried we planted thousands of trees but for the lack of infrastructure it was more expensive to produce than what we made from selling it and we had to go back to coca the government says they will get rid of

a hundred thousand actors of color can leave this year fifty thousand by eradication and another fifty thousand by convincing people to switch to a different crop while farmers here have seen thousands of policeman come and to wipe out the plant there yet to receive any benefit to do that themselves many farmers continue to see the plant as their only means of survival and with drug gangs and far dissidence pressuring farmers to keep cultivating the crop to more confrontations will come i listened. to the rescue workers are worried about the number of people still missing in the u.s. state of california as well wildfires have killed at least thirty two people it's believed to be the deadliest series of blazes in the state's history thousands of homes have been destroyed emergency service workers are focusing on the destroyed

mobile home park as they search for survivors we start over three hundred missing people so we want to get to the target searches of known missing persons unknown addresses and we can come back to this area and go through again. if we get out of this was with two missing people we'll consider ourselves lucky. provisional results in liberia's election show former football star george weah in the lead at least a third of votes from five thousand three hundred polling stations have been counted so far we as almost forty percent close nearest challenger vice president joseph. is on thirty one percent it's likely they'll be a runoff next month as fifty percent of the vote is needed for an outright win zambia's economy was built on mining but children are now feeling the after effects of years of toxins polluting the environment they often ingest lead when they're playing is one of the tasks or of course from cowboy. in the notice of sunshine

meyer looked a little small for his age after blood tests were done a nurse at the clinic gave her the bad news he's suffering from lead poisoning known for. his condition hasn't changed he sometimes vomit says diarrhea and he's often tired and it doesn't have the right drugs last time i got medication for him was in january late isn't your a toxin that's particularly dangerous to children they often ingest the poison dust while playing or doing chores a study done by the world back in twenty eleven found that in effect the communities here lead in the soil was about ten times the u.s. safety limit some children haven't been tested so they are no official figures of how many are sick but community leaders say they know decades of mining lead and zinc have left a toxic legacy. very stringent for instance. that school is quite poor. very very hard

to believe. children are. the warning signs don't seem to scare away the poor and desperate is still a valuable commodity used around the world the locals call the spit black mountain they can dig for hours looking for lead to sell they say there is no other work when the mine close in one thousand nine hundred for many people lost their jobs gavin doing is awesome make ends meet even if it's dangerous work. angels are working with the government to communities since twenty fifteen more than one hundred homes that had contaminated soil replaced with clean soil they get. put on the ground put some gravel and then they get. put on top and plant grass so that. the membrane only allows water to go downwards and not upwards and then there is no dust environmental health experts say after more than a century of mining will never be allayed freetown is too late for that but getting

as many people as possible away from the exposure could help make this a former mining town a little bit safer for future generations. cowboy zambia now tens of thousands of penguin chicks have starved to death in antarctica and what scientists are describing as a catastrophic breeding season it's the second bad season in five years for a colony of penguins all but two of the chicks died scientists say it's cause why on usually high amounts of ice late in the season which are all penguins traveling further for food conservation groups one urgent action on the new marine protection in the east antarctica region that's home to about thirty six thousand homes with us right down the head of the worldwide fund for nature's polar program he explains what can be done to help from recovery. we can ensure that there are no krill fisheries. that overlap with the areas that the penguins go to

feed and indeed on monday next week there's a major international meeting and happening in hobart in australia it's called camelot that's the commission for the conservation of antarctic marine living resources and camera considering a proposal that's been put down by a stray and the european union for a new marine protected area which would protect some of the amazing wildlife in this area including in delhi and emperor penguins the good news is that those same birds will return to the same colony next year and try all over again so whilst it was a catastrophic breeding attempt this year they will try again it early penguins are very hardy little birds.

take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera now well the leaders are criticizing the u.s. president's decision to decertify the new deal with iran trump says the iranians are not complying with conditions of the old agreement britain france and germany there are warning the u.s. against undermining the accord iran's president says trump is making a pile of delusional allegations. are you worried about iranian missiles what about those weapons you give every day to aggressor countries i know targeting of the oppressed people of yemen with planes and bombs that you built yourself you don't have any protest about those weapons and that aggression you targeted our oil platforms you are always the aggressor in this region our weapons our missiles are defending ourselves we have always been determined and today we are more determined to defend ourselves. well a family freed after being held hostage in pakistan for five years has returned to

canada joshua boyle and his wife kate and was seized by the taliban linked group while hiking in afghanistan former u.n. chief kofi annan is calling on the amount to ensuring the refugees can safely return home more than half a million are in neighboring bangladesh to escape a military crackdown and state and i'm heads a commission appointed by me in my last year to investigate problems there. are more turkish troops event is serious province after a cross border deployment began two days ago about twenty armored vehicles cross the border to join troops who are already inside syria they were inspected by turkey's top general before moving to take part in forcing a deescalation. austria's anti immigrant freedom party has ended its election campaign with a rally in vienna integration has been a major issue ahead of sunday's vote party's leader. cues the government coalition

of trying to swap out austrian people for muslims. and rescue workers are worried about the number of people still missing in the us state of california at a wildfires killed thirty two. in the. news coverage of looking for an easy solution we delved deeper from on and challenge the status quo. from at this time. tonight. i'm like. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're track.