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the suspense comes to an end on tuesday when donald trump announces his decision on whether to wear the troll from the iran nuclear deal. headquarters in doha. also ahead of the changing face of politics a major upset for prime minister. claims victory in the election. saw the military leaders defend an airstrike that's killed several civilians in yemen class the world. value rights. and woman who ran a secret prison mine for torturing its prepares for confirmation hearings to become the next cia director.

a group of us democrats have just sent donald trump a letter urging him to let america remain a part of the iran nuclear do the president's expected to announce his decision on whether to withdraw on tuesday america's allies have also been trying to convince trump to preserve the international agreement which has limited iran's nuclear capabilities. has more from the white house. after months of diplomacy and high level meetings at the white house between the us president and his counterparts in france germany and a monday the foreign secretary of the u.k. donald trump announced he had finally bade his decision trump tweeted he would make his decision public on tuesday whether to withdraw the united states from the iran nuclear agreement. the announcement follows a last minute effort by u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson to persuade try to keep the u.s.

within the deal even with top trump administrator. there's including secretary of state mike pump a.o. but not donald trump in the absence of a presidential meeting johnson penned an editorial in the new york times newspaper and has been appearing on multiple u.s. t.v. networks urging trump to remain in the agreement he will be tougher on iran but not throw away that the heart of the deal which is all about stopping them getting nuclear weapons the deal was negotiated in twenty fifty and under the administration of u.s. president barack obama and included other european countries as well as russia and china it's designed to contain iran's nuclear program for civilian use only. trouble was to get out of the deal unless it's fixed to address iran's missile program and tehran's other military activities in the region on monday on twitter

he called the deal a mess and criticized the man who helped negotiate it former secretary of state john kerry along with the president trump advisor rudolph giuliani is also criticizing kerry and what they call his shadow diplomacy this follows media reports kerry recently met with the iranian foreign minister job as a reef at the united nations i don't think that we would take advice from somebody who created what the president sees to be one of the worst deals ever made is the latest signal us president donald trump is preparing to withdraw from the iran deal still france britain and germany have indicated they'll remain in the agreement regardless of the u.s. decision kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house well the iranian president says he's committed to the day and as long as iran's interests are protected in your own chim are down about a jaw me whole heem regarding the nuclear agreement if our interests and objectives are protected by other parties to the agreement except america and we will be

committed to it if america leaves the agreement it will not mean anything. actually it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm that we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret it and feel like he is committed a strategic mistake. well let's go to our correspondent andy gallagher now who's joining us live from washington d.c. for more on this and an eleventh hour letter from democrat senators to the president and the aging him not to withdraw from the deal. you're perhaps not surprising it was the democratic party in the obama administration that put this agreement in place in twenty fifteen and as you said this really is an eleventh hour letter as well as europe's some of europe's most prominent leaders kind of

whispering in donald trump's ear to keep this agreement in place you've got the democrats doing the same thing i'll read you a quick exit from the letter itself it says if the united states unilaterally withdraw from the j.c. way iran could either remain in the agreement and seek to isolate the united states from our closest partners or resume its nuclear activities either scenario would be detrimental to our national security interests so we really what you've got here is a democrats pleading to donald trump to keep this deal in place they know it's far from perfect but they think it's the best position for the united states and the rest of the world but donald trump of course even before he became president this is one of his campaign pledges he called it a horrible deal a deal in which the united states got nothing back but at the moment at this eleventh hour it's uncertain what donald trump will do we know he's spoken to chancellor merkel of germany to micron of france of course the home secretary boris johnson from the united kingdom was here today didn't directly meet with donald

trump but wrote that editorial as kimberly was talking about went on for the fox news channel which the president watches very closely and said look basically mr president this is not perfect but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater so is it a certainty then andy that trump we're only a deal. all indications are and it's very hard to predict what this president will do is that he has made his mind up to do so president micron apparently told reporters that he may do so for domestic reasons in other words he made that campaign pledge when he was running for president now he is president of he's never said anything else other than this is a horrible deal he may now be about to deliver on that promise but there is always you know uncertainty with this president look what he did with the nafta agreement he said we're going to pull out this is a horrible deal and then he we negotiated it the problem is this is a far more important deal has far broader implications for the entire region particularly of course the middle east but of the agreement itself means that iran

ships out its nuclear fuel it means it promises not to make any more for fifteen years but president trump says he's concerned about the missile program is concerned about what he says are iran's terrorist supporter activities in the region so it's hard to know what he will do the indications are he may well scrap it but he also may be renegotiated but it seems the iranians don't want to do that so we are at the eleventh hour we are getting these pleading letters from democrats but as ever with this president to extremely difficult to predict exactly what he will do andy thank you very much for that and a gallaudet joining us live from washington d.c. . let's move on to other news now and sabathia said to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party's poor showing in sunday's polls at edi's has his future movement appears to have lost a third of it thinks preliminary results show the shia party hezbollah and its allies went in more than half the seats in parliament they know there has more from

beirut. there was a clear winner eleven hours election. hezbollah and its political allies won the majority of seats in parliament it's be seen by some as a victory for iran this group is backed by. it's the only lebanese party that has an armed wing and its electoral gains further empowers it politically hezbollah's leader called for cooperation. and. for the poli stressed that there is a reality in lebanon and that is that no one can eliminate the other even if we have disagreements we want political stability we need to cooperate. the general elections was a loss for lebanon's prime minister saddle had a no longer heads the largest bloc in the legislature but he still retains the majority of seats allocated to suddenly muslims how did he faced opposition from

within his own community have accused him of being too lenient with hezbollah which is fighting in neighboring syria when asked if he plans to change that approach the prime minister said the focus should be on development and improving the lebanese economy. i disagree with them on many issues and will continue to disagree with them but what do i told the lebanese people will be stop working on services like electricity water roads and instead focus on political challenge levanon can handle political crises. clearly indicating his willingness to continue working with his political rivals he has led a national unity government since late two thousand and sixteen a cabinet that includes members of hezbollah. and the last election in two thousand and nine it was the pro western approach saudi alliance headed by saddle that won the majority of seats in parliament since then iran's influence has been growing not just here in lebanon but across the region and it has been at the expense of

saudi arabia. saudi arabia used to play a major role in lebanese politics. for the better. i would be arabia was busy with other conflicts in the region like yemen the war there is a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia was aware that there are lies in lebanon where no longer united and they couldn't be a force to confront his blog but. the ground for iran. for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and now that the election is over. beirut. at least six people have been killed in saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen the raids targeted the presidential office and which is controlled by what the rebels have been fighting. since two thousand and fifteen but reports.

witnesses say they heard warplanes overhead before two loud explosions as bones hit the presidential office in the center of the control center the strikes damaged not only the intended target but all say businesses and houses nearby. a jet target at the presidential office the neighborhood is full of people unemployed youths were at work we rushed to rescue people who were there who were trying to rescue a man from underneath a car and a child on the iris type target us with no mercy for human beings. citizens have nothing to do with what is going on we are not leaders no leaders work in these offices we are doing our routine daily work. a spokesman for the saudi led coalition defended the airstrikes saying they targeted a high level meeting of who the leader is. targeting the presidential palace was

targeting first and second rate leadership there was confirmed intelligence information they were monitored through intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance systems. that saudi arabia and its allies have been fighting against the since twenty fifteen when they intervened to support yemen's internationally recognized government led by president abbott robbie mansell heidi after three years of fighting and no end to the war in sight analysts say the saudi led coalition has changed tactics and is concentrating on targeting the leaders. but it's a risky strategy the fighters and their supporters say they're more determined than ever to continue their fight for control of yemen victoria gate and be out is there . still ahead on the bulletin emergency services and hawaii battle to save homes and lives following the eruption of the killer whale volcano and his relatives mourning a sixteen year old girl who was raped and burnt alive and here

a second teenager fights for her life after a similar attack. binny's pink skies by the time. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello there the rain is gradually beginning to pep up over parts of china once more the last system looks like it's trying to clear away but don't choose they don't just about clinging on to this little patch it just in the northern parts of vietnam and into the southern parts of china and then on wednesday it will spread further northward so it's here across the blank sheet in guangdong province and then working its way northward all the way up into going she said a lot of heavy down. poise here the east coast isn't looking too bad shanghai getting to around twenty three degrees now but for the tools the south a look at the showers that we've got over vietnam and into cambodia they really get

going at the end of the satellite sequence and i think over the next few days we'll see more showers get going here as we had to choose day on wednesday that also be spreading down through time and as well to the south of that there's a better chance of a drawing day so it looks like they'll be fewer showers in kuala lumpur and singapore as well as we head across towards borneo always more showers here to the south of that though it is dry in java over towards india and for most of us it's been fine and dry but hot recently and now things are beginning to change this area of cloud is working its way in from pakistan and so forth in new delhi that's a chance of seeing more in the way of cloud perhaps a few showers on choose day the heavier rain though will be to the north. the way sponsored by qatar airways. sixty seven. promise one. but. the plane. to the jewish. at the expense of the palestinians. the

story of the british declaration that changed the middle east. seems of to school on al-jazeera. the to have you with us these are our top stories the u.s. president will announce his decision on whether to exit the iran nuclear deal on tuesday america's allies have been trying to convince donald trump to preserve the agreement and twelve democratic senators have rushed into the president warning him that withdrawal could put national security at risk. to continue as lebanon's prime

minister on the sectarian power sharing system just. a third of it see. a results from sunday's election show the shia and its allies win in more than half the seats in parliament. and sally led coalition air strikes have killed at least six people in yemen. at the presidential office and son are which is controlled by the iran backed rebels have been fighting. since two thousand and fifteen. back to our top story now the iran nuclear. issues of national security and foreign policy analyst and he says donald trump would be taking a huge risk if he pulls out of the agreement without a plan b. well let's not forget this is not a perfect it is not perfect has a lot of flaws imperfect but again without a good replacement and also without a globe or more tea party agreement that includes all the p five p.

five p. five plus one iran and the united states any idea railing of this agreement will be disastrous and it's just going to embolden the hardliners in iran to do what they do and again as i said nothing. we do just doesn't mean that iran's behavior is just this particular issue president from a risk making stake out having a good backup plan that our friends germany britain france and so on and so forth and the urgency of artes and why asking more people to move as new fishes have opened up pushing more novel out of the ground and interested until areas of dozens of homes have been destroyed can a way has also been met and toxic gas into the essence of serapion on thursday and on two thousand people have been evacuated so far from reynolds has more from landing estates we've been escorted by police and military officials to the

this lava flow in little rock and the estates i can feel the heat from here it's like an avenue and you can see the growing red inside the rocks you can also see here that probably insulate tricity lines have been torn down by the flow of the rock and burning vegetation and through a stove or there. are some people who are taking some of their personal possessions out. rania states taking them to safety braving certain hazards here including. several backside of gas which at the moment is rather return but which can quickly turn very very dangerous now this. red hot as is which were destroyed people lives forever answered and the show so here on the pavement some of those left early traditional. after a religious offering in hopes of placating wherever for says at work

here creating lead of this destruction. be it it's a stay here only a short time because of the danger due to the toxic gases that are being emitted from the lab or that i have to tell you this is moving very quickly on bear with benson appear to be advancing right now we are told that this is probably less than twenty four hours or so just a day or two ago many of this was here and this was. trapping the paradise now in its disaster zone nigeria's army has confirmed that it's rescued more than a thousand captives they were rescued from several villages and borne our state that ninety women and children and some young men who were forced to become flashes for the current operation involved twenty two brigades of the multinational joint tosk

force interest has moved from the state capital by the body. the one thousand people who have been rescued by the military actually rescued were actually rescued along around the bomb area which is on the fringes of the some bisa forest we've known and have heard of boko haram a fight is trying to infiltrate that particular area and they've extended actually they reach into neighboring atomised state while some book or i'm suicide bombers deter native bombs last weekend killing at least fifty people in the town of movies they've also from that particular area extended their reach into cameroon so the fighters actually members of the multinational joint task force that comprises soldiers from cameroon nigeria ninja child republic as well as the new republic which is not directly affected by blackwater yet it's contributing forces to the fight against boko haram now that operation is called named operation deep point it's holding simultaneously as the army or regional forces launch another operation

called operation last fall of on the shores of the lecture targeting particular islands why they suspect that book one fighters are holed up and are carrying from where they're carrying attacks now with that particular faction of the koran is actually a like through the islamic state in west africa a group that the military in the region is trying to see that they've been denied access to arms and ammunition and freedom to operate in that part of the lake chad region. to india now where a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after allegedly being gang raped and set on fire a man's been arrested in connection with the attack that happened in the eastern state of judgment on the same day a sixteen year old girl was murdered there she was also raped and burned alive the latest victim suffered first degree burns to seventy percent of her body staying and dia and the trial of eight men accused of raping and murdering an eight year old girl and indian administered kashmir has been moved to

a neighboring state the supreme court made the decision after the victim's family and you're said they faced death threats that incident led to protests across the country priyanka reports. they look at peace but this family is in pain prosecutors say that on january an eight year old girl was kidnapped gang raped by at least three men over the course of four days and then killed her body was dumped in a forest the indian supreme court has banned media from using the gold real name her family is part of a nomadic community of muslim shepherds a muddy but bob a tatty they killed our daughter she was very pretty we remember her every time we miss her a lot during migration wherever i transit i miss her i measure in the days and nights whenever i am alone i miss her after the incident we are very scared we want justice and the culprits to be hanged. tension between the muslim and hindu

communities has often been high but the eight year old girl's case has shocked many on both sides a retired government official and four policemen have been charged through a tired official sons iran is alleged to have ordered his nephew and a policeman to kidnap the go to harass members of a community into leaving qatar district which is little more than indian administered kashmir area it's mainly him though activists say the religious divide here is fuelled deliberately this government form last three. days government branded this community. with forest. guard those from our or for the last three years the brand of this community is a criminal and now we're attacking by the governmental institution activists say those accusations have created the atmosphere which led to the gold staff. according to police reports d.n.a.

tests have proved the girl's presence in this temple post-mortem site in the police report has indicated injuries to her genitals as a result of sexual assaults lawyers for the accused disagree with. the theory of the lived with i believe that it was a gang rape is not established a medical reports that is what does that mean these. supporters of the accused to demanding that the federal police take over the case supporters of the family just want justice. are just here when rape is the fourth most common crime against women and here nearly twenty five thousand rape cases of a portrait in two thousand and twelve the slumber jumped by nearly sixty percent and for years to forty thousand in two thousand and sixteen the conviction rate for rape has has dropped over the past forty years from forty four percent in one thousand nine hundred three to twenty seven percent in two thousand and thirteen but this is higher than other developed countries like the united kingdom which

recorded a conviction rate of just seven percent in two thousand and twelve only one in four trials leads to a conviction and india and it's believed many cases go under ported because of the stigma attached to rape and sexual assault well yes main hassan is the global executive director of equality now that's an international advocacy group for women's rights based in new york and she says prime minister narendra modi must do more to deal with the rising number of rape cases in india. it took a lot of international pressure to get him on board i know christine legarde called him out from the i.m.f. when he was in london people protested initially his response to all of these is let's ignore them and they will go away and given that there is government complicity almost in the silence i think that his government needs to do a lot more first speak out about it and then ensure that the justice system really functions for justice to be done in these cases because otherwise there is no deterrent these are going to go on but as well as president nicolas a little has

expressed solidarity with his palestinian counterpart during mahmoud abbas's visit to caracas mother who has proposed further economic cooperation with palestine and to use a government backed cryptocurrency for transactions venezuela has longstanding diplomatic relations with palestine record it's a basket of from tel aviv during israel's two thousand and fourteen gaza war. we hope that sooner rather than later on the basis of international rights under the united nations mandate the negotiations that will return to palestine its territory and the right to exist or resumed. i have also proposed that the palestine as well a commission except the petro as a crypto currency for the exchange of commerce the payment of transactions and the creation of a binational fund for financing for the joint palestine venezuelan development in which we will contribute twenty million peytral for technological and industrial

development between our nations. well u.s. vice president mike pence has called on the organization of american states to drop weight as latest membership he also urged her to suspend the election shield for later this month saying it would be a share. i call on all of our freedom loving neighbors in this hemisphere to take three concrete actions the time has come first and foremost to cut off venezuela's corrupt leaders from laundering money through your financial systems secondly the time has come to enact these are restrictions that prevent venezuela's leaders from entering your nations and finally we call on all freedom loving nations across our hemisphere to hold me accountable for destroying venezuela democracy the white house as president trumps pick to head the central intelligence agency is committed to getting the job in a hospital would be the first woman to run the u.s.

spy agency that she's and programming on wednesday his confirmation hearing amid criticism of her overall and the cia's use of torture against the president is. a poll. who is gina housefull the intelligence veteran endorsed by six former cia heads to become the agency's next director she is not only a highly respected nominee but she is among the most qualified that will ever serve in that role or as critics have called her the head cheerleader for waterboarding it sends a signal to the rest of the world that we do not value human rights and the people who engage in even the worst acts of torture or supervise people who do so can end up becoming cia director and serve at the highest levels of government house bill ran a secret cia prison in thailand after the nine eleven attack under her watch at least one terrorism suspect was water boarded and has to later ordered videotapes showing

enhanced interrogation sessions to be destroyed a senate report labeled those techniques torture it's very concerning because those of us that worked on the torture report know some things that are classified and. this is an important part of this woman's career the cia has selectively declassified some details on how schools thirty three years working for the agency from an undercover agent in africa and eurasia the chief of station in several overseas postings to deputy director but last week haskell reportedly offered to withdraw her nomination to lead the agency telling the white house she didn't want to have a confirmation hearing that may potentially damage the cia's reputation president trump pushed back monday tweeting my highly respected nominee for cia director gina haskell has come under fire because she was too tough on terrorists haskell's test

before the senate is scheduled on wednesday where tough questions will surely await heidegger castro al-jazeera washington. hello again i'm elizabeth problem and the headlines on al-jazeera a group of us democrats have sent donald trump a letter urging him to let america remain a part of the iran nuclear deal the u.s. president is expected to announce his decision on whether to withdraw on tuesday america's allies have been trying to convince them to preserve the international agreement which is limited iran's nuclear capabilities while the iranian president says he's committed to the deal as long as iran's interests are protected. regarding the nuclear agreement of our interests and objectives are protected by other parties to the agreement except america and we will be committed to it if

america leaves it remans it will not mean anything actually it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm that we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret it and feel like it is committed a strategic mistake south korea said to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party losing a third of its seats preliminary results from sunday's election show the shiite party has and its allies won more than half the seats in parliament. saudi led coalition airstrikes have killed at least six people in yemen the raids target of the presidential office and somehow which is controlled by the whities. nigeria's army has confirmed it's rescued more than a thousand captives the hostages were rescued from several villages in borno state

they are mainly women and children and some young men who were forced to become fighters for the. emergency authorities in hawaii a battling lava flows and a gas erupting from a killer way out volcano thousands have been asked to evacuate and dozens of homes have been destroyed killer whale has also been a toxic gas into the air since its eruption on thursday but there have been no fatalities or major injuries. those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us the inside story is coming up next. the massive arab emirates appears to have taken over the island of. its troops are

in key positions.