more in the way of cloud is rolling its way towards us and that will drag down the temperatures so a maximum just eighteen in adelaide and forests in melbourne will drop even further as we head into thursday this time melbourne we're only see around twelve degrees of the maximum so far cooler and fresh air for us and they could even be snow by the time we get to the weekend in the mountains of victoria out towards the east and you can see the fair amount of cloud has been with us across the south island that certainly given us some very wet weather there looks like it should be fine and settle for most of us a wednesday but then this weather system works its way towards us and thursday does look for wetter particularly for the southwestern parts of the south island it should be brightening up though for us across parts of japan just rain in the southeast. the in.

zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. donald trump pulls out of an agreement he described as defective to its core and imposes the highest level of sanctions against iran immediate reaction from the iranian leader hassan rouhani says his government will bypass washington and negotiate with the deals european signatories reaction to from france's emanuel macron he and all the european leaders issue a statement voicing that regret over the trump decision.

and all meaning is new prime minister is given a hero's welcome as a mass rally in the country's capital. and i'm tatiana sanchez in doha with all the day's sports including division team les appiah look for a fairytale ending in the french cup final against paris. u.s. president donald trump is announce he is pulling the united states out of the iran nuclear deal calling the two thousand and fifteen agreement defective to its core trump said the disastrous deal was an embarrassment for the united states he also said he would be imposing the highest level of sanctions against iran. i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal in a few moments i will sign

a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating u.s. nuclear sanctions on the uranian regime we will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction any nation that helps saran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the united states america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail we will not allow american cities to be threatened with destruction and we will not allow a regime the chance death to america to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth will shortly after that announcement iran's president has an rouhani made a statement as well he said his country has fulfilled its commitments under the deal the troll tool that they have done nothing except put empty signatures on pieces of paper without doing anything about it the iranian mission on the other

hand has agreed to everything and accomplished all its responsibilities we had some duties based on that agreement and we have delivered all of them but today we can see which is the country that doesn't respect international agreements we've done nothing wrong is not acceptable that the u.s. is pulling out. well former u.s. president barack obama has called trump's decision to withdraw from the iranian misguided and a serious mistake it's now speech our white house correspondent kimberly how it is been following this story and so tell us why does president obama say that trump has made a mistake in this and what is trump's justification for making the decision. well certainly the justification is because the feeling is by the trump administration some of the top advisers national security advisor john bolton his secretary of state my comp aoe that were very much in lockstep with the president

on this issue of iran is that the twenty fifteen agreement negotiated by the obama administration didn't go far enough that it had loopholes which were being exploited by iran and the concern was that simply it did not address what they are arguing are the broader malign activities in the region and so the feeling is by tearing this up now the u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero can work with u.s. allies specifically european leaders who cautioned not to tear up this deal or not to withdraw from it essentially to try and address the broader concerns but reaction on capitol hill has been very swift and very critical not only are some members of the president's own party arguing that european allies should have been given a little bit more time to try and fix the twenty fifteen agreement but the top democratic senator in the u.s. senate chuck schumer argues that this will now hurt u.s. allies or rather u.s. relationship with its allies. and there are no reports that iran has violated the

agreement and to me the greatest worries from iran are not right now the nuclear side but rather what they're doing in syria what they're doing to arm hezbollah with rockets what they're doing with i.c.b.m. and to me the right thing to do would have been to try and come up with our allies with an agreement on those issues and let the nuclear part of this continue as is because it's not being violated in any way by dividing our allies and i've just heard the president said he would impose secondary sanctions on european and asian allies you're making it harder to go after hezbollah you're making it harder to go after a rainy and activities that are really dangerous and you're probably making it harder to come to a north korea deal. right so some major foreign policy challenge is outlined

by chuck schumer there and john bolton is saying that he is to discuss the next steps on iran with his british french and german counterparts on wednesday what are we expecting to happen in the coming days and weeks. well already we heard at the tail end of the president's announcement as he was leaving the different matic room of the white house that he had already pushed his secretary of state might pump a zero toward north korea so the irony in all of this is donald trump is tearing up one nuclear agreement he's trying to negotiate another with north korea and so that is one of the things that is being focused on but certainly there is a lot of concern on capitol hill again by some of the top democratic critics about all of this particularly a former presidential candidate bernie sanders who said a lot of this feels eerily similar to the march toward the u.s. invasion of iraq that back in two thousand and three that that didn't just happen overnight but there was a series of incremental policy decisions leading up to that decision and the fear

is that this may again be one of those moments one of those incremental decisions so what you're likely to see is well you have the secretary of state or the national security advisor working with european allies there is going to also be a very critical look in the u.s. congress a number of members of congress releasing statements that they want the administration to come to capitol hill to testify and explain the cat sort of what the calculus was in making this decision to withdraw and we imposed sanctions given the concern that it could have profound implications that many in the united states and around the world would consider unimaginable all right thank you very much kimberly the white house well now the u.s. secretary general has called on the remaining policies in the iran nuclear deal to abide by their commitments despite the u.s. withdrawal. secretary general is deeply concerned by today's announcement that the united states will be withdrawing from the joint comprehensive plan of action and

will begin reinstating u.s. sanctions the secretary general has consistently reiterated that the j c.p.o. way represents a major achievement in nuclear nonproliferation and diplomacy it has also contributed to regional and international peace and security it is essential that all concerns regarding the implementation of the plan be addressed through the mechanisms established in the j c p o a well european union's foreign affairs chief federico greeny says that the deal is working the nuclear deal with iran is crucial for the security of the region of europe and of the entire world as long as it continues to implement its nuclear related commitments as it is doing so far the european union will remain committed to the continued full an effective implementation of the nuclear deal. and have a massacre at its head james bay is is life for us now from u.n.

headquarters in new york and so we are seeing a real drive on the part of european countries france germany the u.k. to reiterate they that own commitment to this deal but it looks as though this pact it's impossible for it to survive without us but as a patient. it's going to be very difficult indeed and i think the problems are one of them you already highlighted which is this whole idea of secondary sanctions and all the sanctions that the united states has in place that are now going to be reimposed there are some that are secondary sanctions particularly to do with the central bank of iran and so other. companies from countries other than the u.s. from europe and elsewhere potentially going to get caught up in u.s. sanctions in fact the new u.s. ambassador to germany rick grinnell just taking up his job has put out

a tweet in the last couple of hours saying german companies should stop their operations in iran now well if companies from germany elsewhere in europe and other u.s. allies do that then that is going to create a problem where you're going to have washington at olds with some of its key allies but it's also going to create a real problem for this deal because the thing that iran gets from this deal is economic relief it gets access to its economy opening up its economy with all these other countries will if they face sanctions from the u.s. that is not going to happen iran slowly will not see the benefits anymore of this deal and potentially that will be closing the door to diplomacy and once again opening up more possibilities for conflict in the middle east and speaking of conflict in the middle east you know that the united nations and we see the u.n. security council constantly debating sometimes very heatedly and you know we see

already these but this political divide particularly on syria how much of a crisis does this create for the body that is there that is meant to try and tackle these tensions. it's worth reminding you that the nuclear deal is a nuclear deal done by the p.t. five plus one and iran the international community's representatives those six countries and iran but as soon as they did the deal they took it here to new york and they put it into a un security council resolution quote resolution twenty two thirty one which then becomes binding international law that everyone signs up to well the u.s. has effectively pulled out of this deal it's also in breach of that binding international law by doing this so it undermines the security council it undermines the resolve of the security council and i think it makes it more difficult to get

things done here in new york it also creates a very unusual situation where right now on this issue you have the key european powers of the security council so the u.k. and france on the side of russia and china not on the side of the u.s. all right thanks very much a diplomatic editor james bays. joins us now from toronto where we're hearing from president has an iranian earlier on trying to reassure the iranian people saying that they very much expected the u.s. to pull out of the delaware therefore able to plan for it how will the iranians respond now. well the iranians have had a great deal of time to wait for the other shoe to drop as it were and so we've been getting some idea of what their response was going to look like we've heard from the president he's really had multi-stage response to the call of the trump

speech or the remarks by president donald trump as rude and said that iran had fulfilled all of its parts all of the tenets of the agreement the nuclear agreement that it's signed iran has done everything to fulfill its part of the bargain and he put the blame for the deals framing and beginning to fall apart squarely on the shoulders of the trump white house now in terms of how they're expected to respond the main thing that everyone is looking forward to or watching out for is the resumption of the enrichment of uranium the creation or the production of nuclear weapons materials now iran has said all along that it is not pursuing a nuclear weapon it is a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty but by enriching uranium it is developing material that can use for civilian power grid but it also really recognizes that the richmond under any and gives the opportunity to have political

leverage that it used to negotiate a deal in the first place so iran has said over and over again leaders here have said that they will they can and will begin enriching uranium again very quickly that's something that president rouhani hinted to in his speech this evening as well as in remarks he made earlier today he's also said that he will continue to work with other signatories are partners in the deal other than the united states in hopes of maintaining this deal if iran is able to continue to gain any kind of benefit from the deal then they are not willing to abandon and that is because the rouhani government really champion this deal it was souls of. as a cure all for the country's economic problems and they're not willing to let it go without a fight and so i think we will see more diplomacy in coming days but it is difficult in the current political climate with the rhetoric being as. divisive as it is between washington and it is difficult to see how diplomacy will be able

to resolve the current issues all right thanks very much as a investor avi and tapper on al-jazeera senior political analyst maramba shara says that decision could lead to even more instability in the middle east this is no longer about the nuclear now we're talking about the united states versus iran in the middle east we're talking about a new american doctrine an overarching strategy in dealing with the middle east that hinges on american hostility towards iran and perhaps vice versa and in so many ways this is going to allow israel to to escalate it gives iran it's giving the green light for saudi arabia to escalate against iran and i think the so many ways in a sphere as. all eyes in the region i mean look at it has been a law in lebanon just basically sort of defied its position in the lebanese elections not in a mild and popular mobilization iraq are sort of defying their own position in the

iraqi elections this week and certainly the hope is in yemen as well as bashar assad regime and they are a militias in syria are making huge progress so all in all fear one is making moves major major you know expansion of its own influence of those of its allies in the region it has no interest or for direct confrontation with the united states israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been an outspoken opponent of the iran nuclear deal though some in his government and security establishment see it as at least bad option that should be preserved he applauded president chance to station to withdrawal. israel and the fully supports president trumps a bold decision to do to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with the terrorist resume into iran israel is opposed to the nuclear deal from the start because we said that rather than blocking iran's path to a bomb the deal actually paves the runs to an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs and

this within a few years time the removal of sanctions under the do has already produced disastrous results the deal didn't push war further where it actually brought it closer i felt it is in jerusalem so israeli prime minister is very pleased with this he is breathing a sigh of relief but is there also concern that in israel about the consequences of chance withdrawal from iran dale. well yes i mean the political class around benjamin netanyahu has in equally celebrates removed as he is tonight although his his posture was was pretty somber and resolute and serious he will be celebrating the culmination of many years of efforts to try and get this out of israel's main ally it didn't work with president obama it didn't work when he tried to bypass obama and go to the congress he had to wait for a president who it seems shares almost entirely his view of security policy here in

the middle east but yes there are other dowsing voices within israel's security establishment former intelligence officials very high ranking ones the current head of the israeli army just five weeks ago or so was talking about the fact that the j c p o a the iran nuclear deal for all of its faults was working and was likely to keep iran from a nuclear bomb for a good ten to fifty years and so there are dissenting voices but as far as netanyahu is concerned tonight represents a huge victory. so harry what about the israeli public we haven't spoken much about the reaction over there. but are there concerns that they could be perhaps tensions and let's say a direct role in direct confrontation between iran and israel now.

well certainly doesn't you know who has been speaking not just to the wider world but also to the israeli public on this very issue again for many is his chief concern is the idea that iran gets a lot of its list at misawa and its personnel into syria and that it provides hezbollah in lebanon with iranian with further in the weaponry and that that presents a real threats to the state of israel and so that is the message that's been coming from in those messages well from the israeli army in the run up to the old trump speech tonight saying that local authorities in northern israel should open public shelters is there be reinforcements after the israeli media was briefed by by military sources that there could be some kind of iranian limited strike in northern israel in fact it's what has happened tonight are reports of explosions instead in southwest and a southwest brother of damascus in syria the syrian state media are blaming that on

israeli strike israel typically does not comment on such strikes or there are reports that the the strike took place near an iranian base and the new issue convoy was targeted all right thanks very much from jerusalem harry. let's look at some other reaction then to the announcement because russia's foreign ministry says that it is deeply disappointed by the decision in a joint statement between the u.k. france and germany british prime minister to raise a may have to all sides to remain committed to the iranian implementation and to act in a spirit of responsibility the french president emmanuel lachlan has been very vocal in he says that he's ready to work on a new deal with iran he tweeted france germany and the u.k. regret the u.s. decision to leave the chained c.p.i. away in ukraine on paper ration regime is at stake we will work collectively on a broader framework covering it and activity the post two thousand and twenty five area and a listicle activity and stability in the middle. notably syria yemen and iraq well

let's go to natasha who's in paris and so a great deal of disappointment on the part of european leaders who tried very hard to persuade president trump to remain in the iran nuclear deal what are they going to do now are they going to be able to deliver on their implementation of this deal . well that really is the question there's no doubt though that the key word this evening from european leaders is determination they are determined to try and maintain and preserve this deal with iran we heard from the e.u.'s foreign policy chief frederica motoring more greeny saying exactly those words and we know that e.u. leaders will be meeting in brussels next week to discuss what to do next there is no doubt though that they are putting on something of a united front but how easy it will be to maintain that deal is really the question and there are other questions and one of them is what will it mean in terms of

economic sanctions when donald trump said that the u.s. would reimpose economic sanctions on iran what will that mean what will the timeframe be and how is that going to affect the many european businesses that have begun to do trade with iran or just thinking about france of course the billions of dollars of trade are being conducted between french companies and iranian companies and have been in the past two years since those sanctions were lifted in twenty sixteen then also a big question among the european the disaster what it means for europe going forward with its relationship with the u.s. which is becoming increasingly difficult because european leaders might be saying it is very hard now to really rely on the united states as a partner because donald trump has pulled out of the climate change deal that was at the end of last year and now pulled out of the not the key deal the iran nuclear deal so i think for european leaders there are many questions going forward to see

evening. u.s. national security advisor john bolton is saying that he plans to discuss the next steps on iran with european counterparts at the same time you have european council president donald turks saying that he now plans to put this firmly on the agenda of a brussels meeting that is coming up soon what can we what are the europeans going to try to do now to salvage the deal. well i think is it to continue to work together at least in terms of france and the french president a man on my car he was really at the forefront of trying to persuade donald trump in terms of other european leaders to try to persuade donald trump to stay in the deal i mean we saw him over the past few months multiplying his telephone calls when he went to washington on a state visit last month the message he brought to donald trump was stay in this you stay in this iran deal it is the best deal that there is out there at the

moment but obviously his message failed to get through but i think we can imagine that the french president will work very closely with his german his british counterparts and other e.u. leaders to try and salvage maintain this deal preserve this deal and go forward because of course it's not just about stability in the region that's something that all of those leaders say is extremely important to take care of but also the fact that they have all these economic partnerships now with iran so there's a lot here at stake thank you very much from paris. well we now want to speak to beatrice finn the executive director at the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons also known as i can the organization won last year's nobel peace prize for its work on clear eyes ation thanks so much for taking the time to speeches so you no doubt will be watching the developments today very closely tell me your thoughts on what we've been seeing will president trump's withdrawal from

the nuclear nuclear accord force the iranians to come back to the table and renegotiate as he is hoping. thank you very much for having me here mary. it's sixteen the concerning we see the u.s. withdraw from a diplomatic solution that is working iran is complying with the deal. and what you're doing is you're undermining the credibility of the united states and the trust worth engaging with the united states in that it really puts a risk of next month's summit with north korea why should any country trust the united states at this point so it's a it's a very worrying situation i think we have a lot of work ahead of us in the international community to convince governments that nuclear weapons is not the way to protect ourselves. what about opponents of the deal there was criticism at the time that it didn't tackle iran's activities in the region that it didn't do anything to curb iran's ballistic missile activity

that you had certain sunset clauses provisions that essentially allowed certain activities juries you mark to five to ten years was this in some ways a floor deal it from the start absolutely not it's a great deal of it put some of the strongest safeguards and verification the choir men on the run that's that's been on any country it prevents iran from developing nuclear weapons so it's the criticism is not justified it cannot include all issues possible it iran a nuclear weapons deal that he has a nuclear deal that focuses on nuclear issues and it has been very successful and even the united states government house has asserted that the run is complying with the deal and it does allow for unprecedented levels of inspection and yet that is a bone of contention as well is that criticism justified. inspections are good verification is good that's how we can see that this iran

isn't developing any nuclear weapons it's really self sabotage to to leave this till it means that iran does not longer have to submit themselves to these kind of expression meaning that we do not know after that what iran will be doing does this make the possibility the scenario of a nuclear free world even further away do you also concerned about the possibility of it triggering in to make arms race in the middle east perhaps. first of all nuclear weapons are extremely dangerous weapons their weapons of mass destruction and developing them and having them is a huge risk for your own people and that's something people often forget so i think that it doesn't automatically mean that there will be developments on nuclear weapons but it does mean that we have to really think about what the next for preventing proliferation and courage in disarmament the countries that are supportive of their own deal for example the european countries they have to also

show the right now that they have to show iran that nuclear weapons are not an option it didn't go up as did not provide us with security and that means really that all states should rally around the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and join this treaty to make sure that we move towards a world without nuclear weapons you mentioned north korea and we know that. president trump is planning on meeting with north korean leader kim jong il and perhaps in in a matter of weeks how do you compare this decision to withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal to the policy that's being formulated around denuclearization on the korean peninsula. it's two different situations of course iran did not have nuclear weapons north korea do have nuclear weapons so it will be of course much more focus on actually disarming weapons in north korea but it does put a very. difficult hender in the way can you trust the united states governments when it comes to negotiations is this country that serious about moving to

a world without nuclear weapons is it going to change position again in a few in a year or two years is this just pretext for starting war so i think it's definitely raises the stakes for this negotiations with north korea. all right well thank you very much executive director the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can't. really good to get your thoughts on this story thank you very much. so ahead for you on this news hour conflicting reports on how many children were killed in an afghan military attack on a taliban gathering the u.n. says one hundred seven people died thank. you. thousands of hundred carians protest against what they describe as the authoritarian rule of prime minister viktor orban. and coming up in sports it's a fight for survival this one's in southampton that to see escape the premier league relegation zone.

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a comeback our top story this hour u.s. president donald trump has decided to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement saying it's defective at its core and impose the highest level of economic sanctions possible meanwhile iran's president hassan rouhani has expressed his disappointment with the decision saying it had fulfilled all its obligations he says there is a short time to negotiate with all the world powers now to keep the nuclear deal in place and president emanuel says that france germany and the u.k. regret the u.s. decision to leave the deal he says they will now work collectively to make a new agreement. when of going need a ken jeong and his pledge to his continued commitment to denuclearization and a meeting with chinese counterpart xi jinping came second visit to north korea's only major ally this year a china correspondent adrian brown has more. when kim jong un's second secretive visit to china was confirmed on state t.v. as main evening news bulletin in

a seven minute report this time kim was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of darlie on close to the border with north korea it's not clear if kim asked to come or was invited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that get together was being undermined by trump what he said if relative country stuck there hostile attitudes and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow well the chinese side but thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit and beyond these waters the korean peninsula dali and offering a picturesque setting. as the north only ally chinese leaders want to ensure

they're not sidelined in the future diplomacy over north korea after a long strain in relations because of the north's misawa nuclear bomb tests the two sides are hugging again. president xi has accepted an invitation to visit north korea possibly next month so possibly before him she draws meetings with trami in china didn't have a seat at the recent historic summit between leaders of the two koreas and there won't be present at the kim trump summit either so president xi wants to ensure that kim's priorities align with his adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. the man who led weeks of protests in armenia has been chosen as the new prime minister it called on was elected by parliament off to angry demonstrations forced to resign especially going to reports from yerevan aposhian supporters a celebrating. the public square vibrated with excitement.

to shop same give me an i'm overwhelmed with emotion and i can only say that we're very happy that we're free from these prisoners shackles we have hope that the new prime minister can take care of people's needs including freedom of speech. our people have a moment of victory. was our media's so-called people power movement scored a victory with members of parliament electing opposition leader nicole as prime minister are again. i want to thank you for this vote and for your stance and i only want to say the following i serve the people of the republic of armenia and i serve to the republic of armenia. it was the month of fast and surprising developments in the small former soviet republic since gaining independence in one

thousand nine hundred one our media and say they've dreamed of a new dawn for democracy thank god we want to live in free independent country at this moment we are very very happy that we have a man like this as our prime minister who is at our side and we are confident he will help us realize our dreams to live free to have freedom of speech obama may want to see as the day the government finally responded to the will of the folks who are looking forward to having a dominant force in the political fight and fighting for the right former president third sarkozy and he gave us as authoritarian leader who broke its promise when. that he would not become prime minister and. was and is riding a tidal wave of popular support but now he faces the task of governing on the top of his to do list is tackling poverty and corruption the people of armenia will be

watching closely they want this second chance of democracy to work but they also want an improvement in their everyday lives natasha going to aim old zira europe on our media. heavy rain in aleppo province is making life even harder of syrians displaced by the war many cameras for internally displaced people are now severely flooded west in aleppo is one of the main destinations for people being evacuated from the rebel controlled areas on the siege tens of thousands are living in both formal and makeshift camps without access to clean water food or sanitation meanwhile further south a convoy of hundreds of syrian rebels and civilians is left southern damascus as part of an evacuation deal with the government forty seven buses it taking them from the capital to rebel held areas in northern syria government forces are preparing to take control of the towns of beit sahour him yalda and the southeast of the city the military is also bombarding eisel fighters who remain in control of

the refugee camp. and saudi arabia is need a disagreement over a yemeni island that's occupied by troops from its coalition allies the united arab emirates residents of the island of psychiatrist in the arabian sea are demanding the u.a.e. forces leave they landed last wednesday forcing out yemeni soldiers saying that when a mission to confront who's the rebels on the island but the islanders say there are no who sees their. well now to iraq where the anti corruption watchdogs s. three hundred twenty billion dollars has gone missing in the past fifteen years because of government corruption this is a major concern for iraqis will vote for a new parliament on saturday and lacan reports from baghdad. these warplanes should have cost iraq less than a million dollars each instead they cost the thirteen million dollars apiece brought him there are g.e. is a member of the parliamentary transparency commission which looks at deals done by

iraq's government and any allegations of corruption he says it's one of many examples of corrupt deal making. our financial experts estimate from two thousand and three until now more than three hundred twenty billion u.s. dollars went missing and is untraceable most of this money went through corrupt contracts one example is a check warplanes deal the price tag for each jet is nine hundred seventy five thousand u.s. dollars but the iraqi government purchased them for thirteen million u.s. dollars for each one the reason for the corruption he says are simple i don't move rude ones there are no investigative institutions that hold accountable those corrupt iraqis have a saying that goes much unprotected money encourages theft it's not just the major cases of corruption that concern iraq is cronyism and nepotism permeates all levels of society and you don't have to go far in baghdad to hear those stories. business

owners have long complained that the system favors those who pay bribes and have contacts for. corruption is serious in iraq one simple example is that imported goods in the groceries the dent of from kuwait saudi arabia u.a.e. and the rest of the region our government does not encourage national products or support iraqi farmers this is where corruption is apparent government officials make money from those contracts with those countries and it's always the idea that we should my wife has graduated from the teacher's institute seven years ago and still got a government job due to. political analysts who research corruption cases in iraq say it's too late to get the stolen money back. no one can eradicate corruption it runs deep in the iraqi institutions but whoever the new prime minister is could make a fresh start that could prevent any more corruption but what has been done in the past cannot be compensated eradicated ovoid against anymore in two thousand and

seventeen two thousand arrest warrants were issued in iraq on corruption charges two hundred ninety people have been arrested and so far cases are going through the courts but the still anger from many in iraq over corruption allegations and politicians are regularly criticized on social media for serving only their own interests fighting that perception will be a challenge iran can al-jazeera. united nations in the afghan government are giving conflicting accounts of who was killed in a helicopter gunship attack last month the u.n. says one hundred seven people died most of them children the government admits some civilians were involved but says the casualty count has been exaggerated and that many taliban fighters were killed jennifer glass explains from kabul. until last month used to target a school in the village of dusty archie sixty five kilometers from couldn't where he now works he says a graduation ceremony at his former religious school was attacked on april second

by helicopter gunships. a month earlier so it was a dark tragic day in our village for i was helicopters were above as far as if you wish ingoldsby later they dropped bombs we could not approach to help the people where. people were for i see this as a very brutal attack after two hours i went to the area the children were killed and wounded i saw first the two dead bodies of my own on my family members were also killed and injured from an afghan government leader said the air attack targeted a taliban gathering but it was mostly children who arrived at the hospital a new u.n. report says at least thirty children were killed and fifty one injured far as the majority of the hundred seven casualties as rockets and heavy machine guns fired on a civilian gathering. witnesses in the taliban controlled area say the casualty total is higher the government says the total support more the taliban has

frightened villagers into exaggerating the number of dead. two days after the attack taliban flags continue to fly over the village taliban fighters have controlled this area for years. should have gone on it was not a religious gathering it was an area with a strong taliban presence the planes that conducted the operation carried out strikes against terrorist groups and as a result eighteen high ranking taliban commanders were killed and twelve other commanders were wounded with a forward to it off a cop well the government says there were civilian casualties the afghan human rights commission says overall the taleban and opposition groups kill far more people. we call on the. position that they should not use the civilian as a human shield during the operation or gathering clearly there was flax and collarbones banners and some people in the gathering

but of course government has to be very very careful and should be irresponsible for protection of those seven but the calls for accountability and transparency mean little to yourself cardiod up his life along with so many others will forever changed in last month's airstrike jennifer glass al-jazeera kabul. thousands of hunger areas have protested against what they call the authoritarian rule of prime minister viktor orban the right wing nationalist was elected for a third straight term last month on an anti immigrant agenda is also increased his control over the media and in barbara points. i police pushed back demonstrators trying to get into the parliament building in budapest. hundreds of people gathered early on tuesday before parliament's first session since last month's election when for prime minister viktor orban some also formed a human chain around the building shouting dictator i was in the protest against

the government and also of the protest against that opposition is because we think that all it may be illegitimate party and. later in the day a huge crowd gathered carrying the hog aerial and european union flags. support for all bands anti immigration stance particularly in rural areas gave him a landslide victory but his opponents call his would illegitimate because of changes in redrawing district boundaries and extending citizenship in voting rights to ethnic hungary and when they were in countries. hundred thirty three of one hundred ninety nine members of parliament taking the oath come from party and its small ally the christian democratic people's party. for all ban approval by the chamber expected on thursday is a formality meaning he'll serve a third term in a row his fourth in total as premier. the voters made

a decision about who should govern the country and who should play the opposition roles everyone must respect the decision of the voters this is the basic rule of hypocrisy. but obama also has just the two thirds majority that allows him to amend the constitution unchallenged he's probably still amendment giving parliament the final say over any efforts to set. all foreigners in the country and the law imposing a twenty five percent tax on foreign donations to civil society groups that support immigration. opens critics accuse him of removing democratic checks and balances including a crackdown on parts of the media that his economic policies have put hungary on track for economic growth of four percent the divided opposition into the mix and it's on likely that these protests will dent picture obama's popularity i did in barber al-jazeera. emergency crews on hawaii's big island say they are poised to

evacuate more people as a lava continues to spew from the caraway a volcano seventeen hundred people have already been ordered to leave their homes five days after a volcano started erupting deadly volcanic gases are also spreading across the island. now we have all the sports. we have the details of. the in. business updates brought to you by. going places together.

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thank you very much there was to be no fairytale finish in the french cup for third division side as they were beaten in the final two nil by paris sandra man just two hundred seventeen fans watched their opening game in this year's cup campaign about fifty bus loads of supporters made the trip from the small french town to paris p.s.g. hit the post four times inside the opening twenty five minutes before giovanni lascelles of finally opened the scoring for the french and glamour club edits and cavani scored from the spot as p.s.g. became the first team to win four consecutive french cup titles now turned their attention to avoiding being relegated to the fourth division. one goal may have sealed the fate of three premier league team to southampton edge twenty in a vital relegation battle the lone goal in the seventy third minute from an early dini in short the west brom and now relegated off their a is in england's top league their result move southampton to thirty seven points meaning the now three

clear of swanzy and almost certain of remaining in the premier league. qatar to help continue their impressive a run in the asian champions league with an impressive away win over the u.a.e. . in the first leg of their own of sixteen visitors hell took the leads in the sixteenth minute through use of a lot of b. they then doubled the advantage before half time their rivals hit back with two late goals of their own but it wasn't enough winning it for two. now this is just over a month to go until the world cup in russia and the country's football union's been punished by fi five of racism they've been fined thirty thousand dollars after french players were racially abused by russian fans during a friendly and petersburg paul pogba was one of those who face monkey chants the stadium in some petersburg will play host to seven world cup games during the tournament. meanwhile officials behind the joint twenty twenty six world cup bid

from the united states canada and mexico have promised that fans won't be denied entry to the u.s. based on their vice president donald trump is looking to implement a travel ban on residents of six missile image or eighty countries but the u.s. government has told fee for the eligible athletes and fans from all countries will be allowed to enter fee for war vote on june thirteenth to decide the world cup host the united bid by the three countries are up against. fifa has also handed guatemala's former secretary general hector through here our lifetime ban from the sport for bribery to hear how did metta taking kickbacks for his help in securing media and marketing rights for world cup qualifying matches he was sentenced to jail last october as part of a widespread u.s. investigation that saw more than forty others accused of bribery as well. english football club leeds united have begun their controversial talls me the second to tame

a faced widespread criticism for agreeing to visit the asian country mars in the midst of an army crackdown which is displaced more than seven hundred thousand russian jim islams to bangladesh the british government has also advised against travelling to parts of the country still mates will play the myanmar national team on wednesday before facing the league all-star two days later. one of the biggest rivalries in a major league baseball is heading overseas the boston red sox and the new york yankees have announced they'll play two games in london next june is the first time the regular season games we've played in europe and i'll be has been slow to make the move compared to the u.s. or the n.f.l. and n.h.l. have played in london since two thousand and seven while the n.b.a. has played eight games there in the last seven years. the stadium and the infrastructure in this city gives major league baseball every opportunity to put on a first class is that we hope that this series will be the beginning of

a relationship with one in that persists and a continuation of increased its exposure for major league baseball here in europe that the italia is back on home soil with the fourth stage being raced in philly chris frame continues to struggle in his quest for a third straight ground tall when he's fifty five seconds off the lead under still suffering from injuries they sustained before the controversial eye opening time trial and west jerusalem the two hundred two kilometer state was one in a not health sprint by belgian ten well an australian ron dennis still holds the leader's pink jersey though with two more days left in philly before the race heads to the mainland. rugby is experiencing a huge boost in popularity across africa and up to three teams could be at next year's world cup in japan south africa have already booked their place in kenya morocco namibia to nazir uganda and then barkway will compete to join them at next month's africa gold cup earlier we spoke to the president of rugby africa

abdel-aziz bush and he says he's very hopeful about the expansion of the sport across africa. we still have to work very hard because we still need to improve. our work or most in the country where the ruby do not exist like like sudan or like other countries cup a very the other country so but most of the time there is easy access to direct b. if the people want to play rugby we hope that this time off we go we have a someone union coming from the repair shop and go also to to do the work of so then we would have a three unions we would have south africa. and a team who wins the the gold cup and. phil mickelson says he's excited to be pad with tiger woods for the opening round of the players' championship the two

thousand and seven champion what will they play with wild number six rickie fowler when the unofficial fifth major gets underway in florida on saturday because in fact he wants it to happen more often. you know i don't know how it's going to play out but i just know that. we seem to be bringing out the best in each other and. we've been playing some really good golf lately and i'm hoping that we have a great week i think that everybody here wants to see it want to see us play well i think we're we are playing well it's a good golf course golf course for us to showcase and i would love for us to continue this all the way into the weekend as well tennis now and women's world number one simona halep has extended how winning streak to fourteen matches as she reached the third round at the madrid open the remaining overcame at least merton's in straight sets she'll now face christina pesca after the six left six three when . former wimbledon champion patrick if it if it has also continued her winning streak now extending it to seven matches this off to be to monaco public of puerto

rico six three seven six to reach that round also in madrid. and here the finance of a disco has joined some of tennis's a leeds players such as rafa down if i talk a bit of it for andy murray and more he's reached his fifty five hundred eighty well told victory in madrid and he did so with a seven five six four when the tally in power lot n.z. to reach the second round tesco is the forty eighth man ever to hit the five hundred win. and that is all the sport for now is now back to london only thanks very much tatyana well that wraps up the news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with much more reaction will be live in teheran and washington for the latest on trucks decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal.

he was the world's most wanted man and last meeting i had with him was off to an event. bin laden was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter before in part two of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin laden he never showed hostility towards near the west i knew bin ladin continues on on. the streets as quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty meters in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in cape town children sometimes

a courtin across i would rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking past to try to take them to gang violence i lost my son you looking away lived oh yes the go i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards poke some you can think of assault by the pakistani army to dmards to get a move good held in guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they have a paper that said they were innocent ever talked to or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. of guantanamo twenty two at this time on al-jazeera.