actions as an unseen global battle rages for results as beneath our oceans we all skip the seabed is the territory still to be claimed. commemorating seventy years from not by al-jazeera examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict made on al-jazeera rewind returns with a new series i can't bring your people back to life or i'm sorry i'm brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries in libya i was the both of us and the like and the others through the rewind continues with most me going into a war zone he said the first thing i look for is the exit it's on how to get it it's how to get out that nobody sees your pictures there's no point going to these places rewind on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are.

if the regime continues its nuclear aspirations it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before donald trump sends a threat to tehran as he pulls the us out of the iran nuclear deal. hello again i'm peter dover you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up a swift reaction from iran tehran vows to remain committed to the landmark deal calling the u.s. withdrawal unacceptable. his use prime minister cast his votes as millions go to the polls in a fierce election marred by scandal plus. yeah they come to

me they put help sometimes they come with nothing and i counter fuse them and you call to train midwives in nigeria where every day more than a hundred women die while giving birth. we begin with the u.s. president's decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal donald trump to fight last ditch diplomatic efforts by his european allies to stick by it following his announcement there's been swift international reaction with more criticism than there's been support for us to react with the iranian president who said the u.s. does not respect its commitments and some rouhani said he's ordered the atomic energy organization to be ready to start the enrichment of uranium other signatories to the twenty fifteen deal including france germany and the u.k. have said they regret trump's decision but they will remain parties to the pact the

top diplomat for the become a greenie said the e.u. will preserve it too and the u.n. secretary general antonio has called on the remaining parties to abide by the deal but president trump. did get support from the u.a.e. saudi arabia and israel the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu praising the u.s. president for taking a quote bold decision to pull out of a quote disastrous deal first report is from a white house correspondent kimberly hocket. after much anticipation u.s. president donald trump made good on a signature campaign promise solidifying his america first agenda i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made. the u.s. negotiated the agreement with iran in twenty fifteen along with the united kingdom

france germany china and russia to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief with the announcement the united states now brea opposes tough economic sanctions on iran's oil and banking sectors that had been lifted arguing iran did not live up to its end of the agreement. we have definitive proof that this arabian promise was a lie even though u.s. intelligence the united nations and european allies maintain iran has been compliant under the agreement trump cited a recent israeli report that iran had not been truthful about its activities before entering into the deal trouble also argues the agreement should have dealt with iran's military pursuits in the region and its ballistic missile program. capitol hill the top senate democrat disagrees 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 trumps predecessor barack obama the man who oversaw the deal called trump's decision a serious mistake in a statement obama said without the agreement the united states could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear armed iran or another war in the middle east. deede former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders believes the united states is already on that path the road to the war in iraq did not simply begin in two thousand and three it was laid down brick by brick over a number of years ironically as the president tore up the nuclear deal with iran secretary of state mike pompei it was on his way to north korea laying the groundwork for a nuclear deal with p.r. nyang president indicated the united states is willing to negotiate

a new deal with iran but he says his decision also signals the united states will no longer make calls empty threats can really help at al-jazeera at the white house well iran was very quick to respond to donald trump's actions zain bus ravi has more now from tehran. flanked by his senior leaders and within minutes of the u.s. pullout from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal iran's president hassan rouhani addressed his country and the world in a life speech he said the united states had once more proven itself to be an unreliable negotiating partner and characterized the american president's remarks as rude. 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 have done nothing wrong is not acceptable that the u.s. is pulling out i championed the nuclear agreement in the face of hard line critics at home who said it was unlikely to succeed so despite the u.s. pullout rouhani isn't willing to give it up without a fight any iranian hopes of still benefiting from the deal and keeping it alive now rests in the hands of the country's foreign minister who helped negotiate it. following his president's speech jawad zarif tweeted that he would spearhead diplomatic efforts hoping to convince other signatories to isolate the united states and not give in to pressure from the white house but the success of more diplomacy is questionable in the face of crippling u.s. sanctions on iran and the threat of secondary sanctions on countries and companies working with iran if the europeans are able to make these promises serious promises

here on then there may be a way for the deal to remain intact otherwise i think that the deal is that iran's not going to give us any concessions need there on it we general. role and it's what it sees as its struggle against extremism nor with regards to its defense capabilities and its missile defense because it knows that the only thing that prevents the united states from attacking iran is its defense capabilities president rouhani has always said that his government pursued dialogue in an effort to avoid conflict but in his speech he spoke about old wars with the united states the kinds of things the nuclear deal was designed to leave in the past the u.s. decision to abandon the agreement in the shifting rhetoric of iran's leaders from economic concerns to strategic security are worrying signs they signal the resetting of relations between the two countries back to a time when open conflict was the norm zain but the old zero to one ok let's take

it to beijing. correspondent adrian how does this sort of change the optics about what's going on between the trumpet ministration and north korea nuclear weapons. well it certainly gives china something else to worry about it's another point of friction between china and the united states as friction over trade there is concern of course over north korea that was underscored by the fact that kim jong un has been here in china for the second time in six weeks he was here in the city of darlie and meeting president xi jinping i think it's fair to assume did he was summoned here by president xi the frequency of these visits really underscore the flurry of diplomacy that is now going on with mike pompei o currently in pyongyang and of course kim jong un making his second visit here to china i think china might well have said to the young leader look if president donald trump is prepared to

walk away from a multilateral deal over iran's nuclear program then he's quite prepared to do the same thing with you so i think president i think shooting ping wants to get a clear idea as to what kim jong un's negotiating strategy is going to be i think china is pretty carefree pretty sanguine about the idea of leaders of the two koreas sitting down face to face but it's less sanguine about the idea of kim jong un sitting down face to face with president donald trump so yes i think china is feeling in secure and over iran it has good reason to feel insecure because china is committed to the nuclear deal that it's signed it has been talking up this deal for the past three years and it will worry because china relies on iran for a lot of the oil that it currently imports twenty five percent of all of iran's oil exports currently go to china china also imports oil from saudi arabia but trade

between china and iran really has been growing quite significantly the past few years i think last year it was about twenty seven billion dollars now iran sends oil to china china sends things like arms in return and that when of course. passed the notice of president trump who of course has warned that the united states is quite prepared to impose sanctions against countries who now assist iran's nuclear program so china will feel vulnerable and it will worry i think about whether if there is to be war in the middle east if we are slipping towards the possibility of conflict what will happen to the oil supplies on which it's so dependent should conflict happen adrian thank you let's talk now. he's a political analyst and the editor in chief at the foreign news agency he joins us from tehran mostafa question what are the chances here that the iranian leadership takes a beat take some time out to come up with

a more considered response. oh well as a matter of fact now the response is dropping the way just this morning not only a number of students in a part of tehran there were tens of students who set fire to the u.s. flag on the way and chanting death to america and demanded the government to you know set fire to the oil as it's been promised but also a number of parliament members during a formal station of the parliament deep the same they set fire to. a text and they said that rouhani should end everything and that's why i probably why the president has you know he said last night that he would work on the deal for a few weeks in the would see if the europeans would go along the correct path to you know provide for iran's interests and the concessions that he had promised to

iran on the deal if not iran would you know abrogate did deal in reprisal. assume for a second the donald trump is right and the deal had to be should have been fixed it should have been a different deal from the get go a poor deal can i suggest to you is better than no deal the poor deal is still there it's still on the table except it's now soley a european table so why doesn't iran want to work only with the french the germans and the british. well as a matter of fact iran i mean the iranian president gave them the chance last night last night he said if the europeans to stand up to their promises and stand up to the us actually and show resistance against the united states pressures and provide for you iran's economic merits that where you know promised under the nuclear deal then there will be a chance for continuing that the oh the europeans need to do

a number of things first they need to protect their economic interactions with iran and they'll block the impact of the united states nuclear related secondary sanctions number two is stop demanding iran for more concessions in the area of its original activities and its missile power and the third one is that you know a major part of this deal depended on the u.s. and its their removal of its sanctions now that the u.s. is out there needs to be some parallel move to be done in order to modify iran's undertakings if the europeans go along this scenario i believe there will be a chance for the deal to survive otherwise. i don't see much chance for this deal to go on into a live give us a sense of the internal dynamics going on inside the leadership of your country because there are people in tehran who never liked the deal they didn't want the

deal and if they push hard enough might they then find themselves in a situation where they can get the iranian leadership to do precisely what they want them to do with not only iranian nuclear ambitions but iranian nuclear missile ambitions and they can say we didn't destroy the deal we didn't walk away from the deal it was donald trump that did all this so we can do precisely what we choose to do from here on in. well let me correct of you a little bit of there's never been anyone into iran willing for developing a military nuclear capability but there were have been critics of this approach towards you know interaction with the united states right from the beginning the critics say that the u.s. doesn't mean to resolve differences with iran it only means to contain iran's power europeans are going along the same path you could see the same thing in the words that were authored by maccarone by angle americal and also boris johnson who all

stated just the other day that if we want to contain iran's power in the region and its missile and this tree then we need to keep this deal so that was the plan and the critics in tehran knew it from right from the beginning now if this deal has had nothing else it has at least has one thing for the iranians and for the people outside the country for other nations it educated everyone about the trustworthiness of iran and that the united states doesn't really mean to resolve differences it only once iran severin there so just three or four years ago when you spoke to people in tehran and all across the country there were a good number of people who believe that we should give diplomacy a chance but now it's a long time probably more than a year now they're almost all people believe that there shouldn't be any kind of

interaction with the united states and they are supporting you know the views expressed by the critics so the critics now have the upper hand and that's why as i said before mr rouhani never said that he would start negotiations with an open and a timetable over you know continuing to deal with the europeans he limits at the time the stress the time constraint and said he would give a mission to missed. to go on with this you know all hectic diplomacy task in order to see if iran could do anything with the europeans with regard to the future of this deal only for a few weeks and he said he would wait for a few weeks i don't think that europeans with the agree to iran's you know demands improve pulls all's as it was shown in two thousand and four when iran did the same thing and the europeans came back and said that they couldn't do anything without the united states concessions ok. i'm going to have to have

a many thanks for joining us from tehran. still to come here on al-jazeera leaders from japan china and south korea meet to discuss north korea's nuclear program. and trump's pick for cia chief is in for a grilling today as her confirmation hearings begin. and we're seeing some very heavy downpours i propose the middle east recently look at the satellite picture we can see this whole swelling massive cloud here and it has given a sin to wrench a heavy downpours localized flooding as well and that system gradually is just edging its way towards the east on wednesday still very disturbed for many of us here will see those thunderstorms work their way through kuwait as well are making their way through parts of iran and then as we head into thursday that gradually spreads its way towards the east but still behind it still plenty of cloud plenty

of rain for many of us here the coast those should be fine and dry beirut there twenty six degrees in the sunshine by thursday before the towards the south in just the trailing leg of that system will affect us across parts of the arabian peninsula so they could just be the old shower head what will really notice in doha there is the change in temperature say thirty nine degrees hot on wednesday but by thursday the winds will be feeding down from the northwest so it won't be as hot a maximum will be thirty six degrees but they could be quite a bit of dust around as well for the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for many of us hey we've got a few showers around the coast of madagascar perhaps a few further north a video and into angola but further south largely fine and dry including forest in cape town at seventy. rewind returns with a new series i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry i'm brand new updates

on the best of. us live i was the global. and the others to rewind continues with me going into a war zone he said the first thing i look for is the exit it's on how to get it it's how to get out that nobody sees your pictures there's no point going to these places rewind on al-jazeera. welcome back recapping the headlines for you so far today donald trump says the u.s. is withdrawing from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal donald trumps of the agreement is defective to its core adding he'll impose the highest level of sanctions against

iran the iranian president said the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal is unlawful and accused washington of not respecting its international commitments rouhani said to iran is now getting ready to start to really enrichment. now the polls have opened in malaysia in what's being billed as the country's tightest ever election the prime minister najib razak has cast his ballot in the city of p. can coalition is likely to win the most seats but it's expected to be a close race between him and dr mahathir mohamad chairman of the opposition alliance let's take a look now at the main candidates and what's at stake the prime minister najib razak has been in power since two thousand and nine his right wing coalition has dominated malaysian politics for more than sixty years but allegations of his links to a corruption scandal involving the state owned investment fund may affect his party's performance competing against is his one time mentor and formally the prime minister mahathir mohamad the ninety two year old quit his old party and gave the

country's opposition a huge boost twenty four to an alliance with them and their jobs coalition is still expected to win the vote but a significant loss of seats to muttiah could leave the prime minister open to a leadership challenge within his own party discontent over the rising cost of living among voters may also sway the results live now to kuala lumpur and my colleague florence leary florence if it's as close as we think it might be what happens after that. close as we think it might be. trading in negotiation going on really depends on who will form the us. half of the government now a poll that was released just yesterday just hours before the first vote was cast suggest that the incumbent and the ruling coalition is on course to take about one hundred feet out of two hundred twenty two parliament feet that's not

enough to form a parliament there are thirty seven feet that are too close to call it's also impossible however to kind of determine who or which party. will be that minority party in government but we can expect to see some sort of political horse trading to take place if that happens. thanks laurance efforts to denuclearize north korea will be high on the agenda of a meeting between the leaders of japan china and south korea in tokyo the three way talks on its take place every year but this is the first one since twenty fifteen of them a sign of improving ties between the neighbors it's also the first visit to japan by a chinese premier and a south korean leader since twenty eleven when haye has more now from tokyo. this was an opportunity for the japanese prime minister shinzo arbet in particular to lay out what he and his country want to see if there are to be any detailed

negotiations with north korea over their nuclear program before this summit throughout this flurry of diplomatic activity over the past few weeks there's been a sense that japan and its prime minister have been a bit on the outside all of that activity even though over the past year japan was very much affected by the threats and the activity coming from north korea after this very brief trilateral summit in tokyo each of the leaders made a statement but it was really only the japanese prime minister that got into specifics about north korea this was his chance to lay out what his country needed he said the u.n. security council resolutions must be implemented they want to see concrete measures from north korea and he also spoke about the abducted the issue these japanese citizens who were abducted by north korea in the seventy's and eighty's allegedly to be trained as north korean spies will twelve of those japanese people are still

missing still unaccounted for presumably still in north korea so that's an issue that is very close to the heart of japanese people and the prime minister shinzo obvious and that is just one example one issue that japan wants to see on the table when it comes to negotiations with north korea the u.s. is calling for the venezuelan president nicolas maduro to step down to protect what it says is the safety and the security of latin america the venezuelan economy has struggled for years now with hyperinflation and many people find it hard to find food and medicine materials government is also accused of using heavy handed tactics to stifle opposition and on rest it's under pressure to suspend its forthcoming presidential move the twentieth elections which the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley calls a sham. we cannot allow maduro to patrol his quote unquote victory on may twentieth as a validation of his role it will be nothing of the sort as long as mr o.

stops a credible independent observer mission we know the results will be fraudulent the systematic oppression of the venezuelan people has become an active threat to the entire region for the safety and the security of all peoples in latin america it is time for madeira to go. president trump's pick to lead the cia jeana house bill is in for a grilling on the senate begins a confirmation hearing on weapons today asked will spend thirty three years at the cia but many are questioning her judgment when she worked for the clandestine service article a no from washington if you can't follow. jim haskell has spent days on capitol hill trying to charm senators in private before she answers their questions in public wednesday it will be a unique scene for the first time a person who was directly connected to torturing people under oath and answering questions president donald trump took to twitter to defend his nominee claiming she

will always be tough on terror highlighting the fact that she's a woman if confirmed she would be the first to leave the agency but it is exactly her role dealing with people like abbott sherry that is being questioned he was water boarded tortured at a secret prison in thailand and she was in charge there were videotapes of it and other acts of torture on people like abu zubaida has been later ordered those tapes destroyed but her backers are airing ads trying to turn that into an asset as bill did exactly what our country asked of her and what was necessary to keep us safe the other defense she was just following orders that's not enough for more than one hundred retired military officers who sent this letter to the senate writing we did not accept the just following orders justification after world war two and we should not accept it now still some republicans are saying the vote is about trump more than torture we've seen one trumped nominee get unfairly smeared by half

truths and in your window and hearsay and we can't let that happen again this will be a close vote she needs at least one member of the democratic party to vote for her to get the job and so far not one has said they will patty calling al-jazeera washington. now the united nations population fund says more than a hundred women die every day while giving birth in nigeria because of a lack of access to health care facilities so many women give birth outside of clinics with the help of a midwife germany reports now from benyus state in central asia area where one woman has been on a mission to improve standards there. people in the village call her mama and golly she's one of the oldest women living in this part of mccurdy in the jury essential when receipt i mean a garbo is her real name and she's hailed as a savior by the other women she sent in in the local language which means each

additional breathing assistant or midwife. ameena has been delivering babies in her village for more than fifteen years. now going to the i.g.b.t. they come to me they are poor and they need help sometimes they come with nothing and i can't refuse them so i take care of them even when they can pay me. mary alex is grateful she didn't have any money but i mean i had her deliver her baby just a few hours ago she's naming her baby happiness the story of mary alex is one that is repeated a thousand times over but the challenges faced by ameena can be extreme and this is what's left of reclaiming she says a group of men set it on fire a couple of months ago and she can't afford to rebuild it it is devastating not only for her but for those women who rely on her. government figures reveal almost seventy percent of deliveries in rural areas happen i told the nigerian

government's now introduced a program to better train birthing assistants like ameena so we're just going to train them and build them so that they can have is that why i didn't buy the d.v.d.'s they just sense. during pregnancy they will encourage women to confront and care. but in benelux state there are more challenges to overcome the government's health workers said went on strike for several weeks now this is why private and charity rides like this one are packed with patients making the situation even more difficult for mothers and their being. in the mean this makeshift clinic another expectant mother arrives she's given what is described as herbal medicine concocted by a mina and then it's a case of waiting and waiting jim allowed in the organ al-jazeera mccurdy in bed

with state central nigeria. this is al jazeera these are the headlines so far the u.s. president says the u.s. is withdrawing from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal trump said this limit is defective to its core adding he'll impose the highest level of sanctions against tehran. the iranian president says the u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal is unlawful and he's accuse washington of not respecting its international commitments hasan rouhani said tirant is now ready to start uranium enrichment. 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 have done nothing wrong is not acceptable that the u.s. is pulling out while other signatories to the dealings that in the e.u. and russia have expressed regret over trump's move america's european allies supposed to uphold the deal but the trump decision has been supported by israel the united arab emirates and saudi arabia donald trump's chief diplomat has arrived in north korea to prepare for a summit with kim jong un mike pompei omic kim in the north korean capital last month before he was sworn in as secretary of states both washington and pyongyang have agreed on a date and a location for the meeting but no further details have been released at the moment . voting is underway in malaysia in an election marred by scandal and fierce competition the prime minister najib razak cast his ballot in the city of p. can not use coalition is projected to win the most seats but it's expected to be a close race between him and the former prime minister dr mahathir mohamad there

are about fifteen million registered voters in malaysia with two hundred twenty two seats in the parliament all up for grabs at least seventeen people have died in an area of the democratic republic of congo where an outbreak of the a bolo virus has been confirmed the world health organization says two of those cases in be tested positive for a boat it's been nearly ten months since an earlier flare up of the fever was eradicated this is now the ninth time it has broken out in the democratic republic of congo since one nine hundred seventy six the w.h.o. is sending a team to help control the outbreak those are your headlines the listening post is next i will see it a quick summary in about thirty minutes. sixty seven words the promise. but disaster. the pledge to the establishment of the jewish homeland at the expense of the

palestinians. the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east. seeds of discord.