iran's president speaks out just hours before the return of u.s. sanctions on rouhani says washington cannot be trusted. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. rescuers scramble to find survivors after sunday's deadly earthquake in indonesia ninety eight people are confirmed dead canada stands by its human rights comments this pride saudi arabia freezing all new trade and ordering the country's ambassador out and we reported on an initiative to turn the tide on

london's plastic problem by bringing back water fountains. iran's president has described washington's call for new nuclear negotiations while reimposing crippling sanctions as psychological warfare has said rouhani was speaking in a televised interview just hours before u.s. sanctions are due to come back into effect the sanctions were triggered by donald trump's decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal which the white house as described this horrible we'll have reaction from tehran in a moment first though this report from kimberly hockett. the united states says iran is a threat and it wants to punish the country's government by isolating from the global financial system starting tuesday u.s. sanctions will be reimposed to target

a range of sectors blocking iran from purchasing u.s. banknotes and trading in gold in metal like aluminum steel it will also limit iran's access to software and automotive sectors will blocking its ability to. purchased commercial aircraft for trade in food and other goods this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made the snapback sanctions are part of a promise made by u.s. president donald trump when he withdrew the united states in may from the twenty fifteen agreement known as the j. c.p.o. a close u.s. allies like france's president emmanuel mccraw and germany's chancellor angela merkel remain committed to the agreement aimed at limiting tehran's nuclear program but the u.s. argues it didn't work and didn't go far enough. the u.s. also argues the profits made from the lifting of sanctions is being used to

purchase and export weapons in places like syria lebanon and gaza to support proxy militias and the state financing of terrorism. the sanctions come as protests continue in iran against deteriorating economic conditions but the united states denies the sanctions are timed to force regime change instead it says it hopes to modify the iranian government's behavior despite longstanding u.s. policy of no formal diplomatic relations with iran president donald trump has even indicated he's willing to sit down for talks with iran's leaders no preconditions no they want to meet anytime they want heightening tensions top european foreign policy chiefs are implementing something called a blocking statute to protect e.u. firms still intent on doing business with iran in spite of the u.s. sanctions prompting this stern warning from a senior republican senator. under these sanctions you have to pick

between the american economy and the iranian economy you can no longer do business with both choose wisely this snapback sanctions are also just the beginning in ninety days and now there are round of even more punishing sanctions targeting iran's massive oil industry will come in to a fact kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house reporters embers ravi was watching president rouhani stevie interview in tehran and says one country came up repeatedly if you were to construct a word cloud of president hassan rouhani his comments than the word china would no doubt appear as one of the most prominent the iranian leader repeated the name of this important strategic economic ally in the region several times no doubt an indication that iran intends on relying on its relationship with china more and more as it continues to face american sanctions and economic pressure

in weeks and months to come president hassan rouhani also addressed the idea of new negotiations with the united states with the with the administration of u.s. president donald trump and with a smirk on his face president hassan rouhani said that he would be open to speaking to donald trump if trump wanted to talk about apologizing to iran and paying it back for the economic problems the united states has caused iran by interfering in the country's affairs now this was one of the lighter moments of the television appearance but he also addressed the idea of a new talks new negotiations in more serious terms here's what he had to say. the person who was abandoned because the nations is trump and his government and he is doing something which is against the iranian people against the interests of iran. if there was honesty iran would come to negotiation. what the u.s.

sanctions contradict any intention to negotiate some of them was a cow going to be honest about wanting to negotiate if you're putting sanctions against children and sick people. in terms of practical steps that the iranian government intends to take to combat ongoing american economic pressure dealing with china and russia as trade partners as economic allies as one thing he also applauded the european union for issuing blocking regulations to help resist the pressure of ongoing american sanctions against iran domestically president hassan rouhani also reached out directly to the iranian people and said is that everything was going to be ok that iran wasn't as weak as people made the country out to be and that the only way to resist american pressure to keep the united states from bringing iran to its knees is to stand united in the face of that pressure he thanked people for their ongoing patience with regards to their financial hardship and he said that things were going to get better but effectively asked frustrated

iranian people many of whom who have been taking to the streets in protest for a little more time to help course correct the country's economy. a business partner of donald trump's former presidential campaign chair has been testifying in court record gates is a star witness in the tax fraud trial of poor man a ford who worked in trump's campaign for five months well she had her town see has been listening to the proceedings and joins us live now so she had what they had great gaits have to say. he said unequivocally that he for conspired knowingly to conceal information from the u.s. government that the amount of income paul amount of for was receiving and the existence of foreign bank accounts you have to declare these things to the u.s.

government they did so to prevent the amount of for paying his rightful amount of taxes so that and this is what the prosecution has been alleging all week in order to continue his lavish lifestyle here in the united states however also had to accept that he was embezzling from those foreign bank accounts hundreds of thousands of dollars he said and that's key to the defense because that's saying rick gates is not a reliable witness he may be the star witness for the prosecution but he can't be trusted because he's just trying to cover up make the best of a bad situation for his own criminal activity so he's saying what the special counsel robert mueller wants him to say and that is mano four is guilty they say that the defense is manifolds only guilt is for trusting trusting rick gates who is in charge of day to day business operations for they say he didn't know that all this information was being concealed from the government however the prosecution has brought forth many many financial officials accountants bookkeepers and so on

who suggest that the amount of four was rather hands on with business activities so in the end it's going to be up to the jury to decide which which d.c. lobbyist you are known for that general that trustworthiness perhaps which one to trust and she had one link. to russia. well that's a fascinating question on the face of it this case has nothing to do with rush or this is simply about paul manifolds business dealings well before he joined the trump campaign least most of it is that actually there is one count here about the amount of four trying to get a four didn't load and seemingly is a quid pro quo for a banker to get a job on the can on the trump campaign but most of this is about tens of millions of dollars for his work in ukraine but even the judge has said i don't think he doesn't think that the special counsel robert miller is even interested in bank fraud tax fraud when it comes to pull him out of for what the special counsel is trying to do is. mount a ford make him panic he faces life imprisonment if he's convicted on these charges

so that he too makes a plea deal some sort of deal with the special counsel as rick gates has done starts talking and you can see why robert mueller might be interested to hear what manifold has to say he was campaign chairman he was at that meeting at trump tower where the russians were offering dirt on hillary clinton as we've now heard as has been confirmed from donald trump himself there's a lot of information that he would like to get more they would like to get from out of four but multiple says he knows nothing about russian collusion he's innocent of these charges and for the moment he says. there's no plea deal to make i'm innocent . see with the latest on that from washington she had thank you. rescuers on the indonesian island of lombok are still trying to assess the extent of the damage from sunday's powerful earthquake the second to strike there in just one week at least ninety eight people are now known to have died and a step vassal reports from lombok many more may be trapped in the wreckage of their homes. from under the rubble of

a mosque women's voices could still be heard three hours after the earthquake struck the disaster happened during prayer and the mosque was full neighbors women screaming but had no equipment to rescue them when rescue workers arrived twenty hours later this creaming had stopped. i'm sure people are still trapped here some of them we managed to pull out but they died a few hours later. still recovering from last week's powerful earthquake and the even bigger happened many were too late to make it to safety as buildings collapsed around them the mother i'm hospital was also severely damaged injured had to be treated. and was going to pray and the gate on top of him. and what we need us tens we have received some help from the government but we need to be able to treat our patients. it's peak tourist season and nearly three

thousand visitors were regulated from the gillie islands near. tourist panicked on the three small flat islands when a tsunami warning was issued some were injured trying to reach safety including a spanish tourist who fell from a tree most tourists want to leave as soon as possible we decided to leave the island but i don't remember the don't know are saying without us. and i just want to get away from lombok and get out of indonesia really. tsunami warning was quickly lifted but the quake damage will take a lot longer to repair in just a few minutes this two story mosque collapsed into rubble people in long book remain in shock after the second earthquake in a week left many homeless while help is on the way search and rescue workers are struggling with the extent of the damage. havea quitman needed to rescue or recover

trapped worshippers has yet to arrive at the mosque some say they've heard we cries from under the rubble but it may be too late to stop al jazeera. still to come here on al-jazeera a weekend of gang violence in chicago leaves. people dead police still insist the murder rate is dropping plus on which way it's going to a. point where do you cut there or enemy of the state china baron's a new movie starring winnie the pooh. hello the windy winter weather has continued in the southeast of australia you can just about guess how active things are by the speed of which these systems rung true

showers to follow so the picture ought to be of sunshine showers not very walnuts about right thirty nat'l a twelve in melbourne and seventy in a sunny sydney which is more or less the same as person off the coast of perth you see all that cloud indicates rushy quite moist weather not much rain with it but probably forgot its sea and a come across here and show you a cloudy picture in victoria which extends through tasmania that is an active system so it should really trans translate across to new zealand get rid of what's been really off the east coast for seems like a week that the tropical weather the rather warmer stuff which really shows itself has missed it is going you should have a fine ish day on tuesday for all of north island but the cloud is close a game is rain for south holland that's an active cold front so it's likely to be a fairly wet day i suspect during wednesday for most places and on that note heading towards tokyo and still on track is this thing here typhoon shanshu when it

gets a what should be i think our stock on wednesday it will be very windy and of course very wet but we'll see. full of struggles at the mouth but i mean on them when they're there without any seem to me. full of pleasure me going make. me funny and it will last only have me an intimate look at life in cuba today if you go over and under way to give us a lesson with a game with the letter what are the name of my leave. my cuba and just.

reminder now the top stories on al-jazeera iran's president passon rouhani has given a television interview accusing washington of being untrustworthy just hours before u.s. sanctions come back into effect the sanctions were triggered by donald trump's decision to abandon the two thousand and fifteen and he would be a business partner of donald trump's former presidential campaign chair has been testifying in court ricky cates is a star witness in the tax for fraud the trial of paul the man of ford who worked in trump's election campaign for five months and at least ninety eight people are known to have died and thousands have been left homeless after sunday's earthquake on the indonesian island of long the search for survivors continues. saudi arabia is a state airline is suspending flights to and from toronto it's the latest in

a series of measures the kingdom announced on monday in a growing diplomatic this with canada it's already ordered the canadian ambassador to leave the country and frozen all new trade investment in education will agree. the saudis accuse the canadian government of interference for urging the release of jailed rights activists culture there jan reports. canada is a bastard saudi arabia is on his way home to saudi say dennis for iraq is no longer welcome and they're accusing the canadian government of interfering in the kingdom's internal affairs as well as spreading misinformation at the lot with. the so do ministry of foreign affairs has expressed disbelief by this negative a phone dot com which was not based on any accurate or true information the diplomatic dispute was triggered by the canadian embassy in riyadh tweeting its concern about the arrest of civil society and women's rights activist including

some are with the tweets urges saudi authorities to release them women's suffrage political activists some are but he was honored in two thousand and twelve by then u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and first lady michelle obama but though he was jailed after suing the kingdom for the right to choose her own husband freedom of the person gave. her brother rice but we was sentenced to ten years and one thousand lashes in two thousand and fourteen for insulting islam through a blogging website for public debate others arrested by saudi police have pressed for the rights of women and the rights of shia muslim minority another woman was taken into custody because she's married to an islamic law scholar is absolutely ridiculous that the saudi authorities can and no one had come through with some sun limited reforms like the left and the driving bad but on the other hand over rest of their e same women who helped to bring about this reform since may we've seen more than

a dozen women's rights activists arrested in what is an unprecedented crack crackdown the kingdom has just allowed women to drive for the first time and to attend sporting events and cinemas have opened after being banned saudi arabia. as a major trading partner supplying ten percent of canadian crude oil imports canada listed saudi arabia as the second largest buyer of canadian on's after the us the two countries signed a twelve billion dollar arms deal four years ago and other was. important that all their armor and also be out of your is a source of revenue for a number of universities. and in universities are various occasions critics say canada's allies must help in taking a stand to pressure the kingdom to stop its crackdown on activists calling for change poll children gian al-jazeera at least twenty three people most of the new

young girls have been rescued from an alleged prostitution ring in northern india they were found in a privately run shelter and to punish state after one of the girls escaped and complained to police officers say twenty of the alleged victims are female between the ages of five and twenty years old three of the rescued are young boys police say a couple and their daughter who around the home have been arrested. bangladesh's government says it's considering using the death penalty on those responsible for fatal traffic accidents that's a student's protest for a ninth day over the death of two teenagers who were killed by a speeding bus meanwhile activists say that armed groups linked to the government and police have attacked protesting students in dhaka in an attempt to quell the demonstrations. at least eleven people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a space of shootings in chicago over the last two days police are blaming it mostly

on gangs saying that they use large sum of crowds as cover to shoot in this community gun violence in the u.s. city has been in the spotlight and president trump and this lawyer rudy giuliani have criticized the city's democratic mayor over the issue john hendren has more. tempers seemed to rise with the temperatures in chicago in this past weekend with a hot one and that made it one of the most violent weekend of the year the official police tally is that sixty four people were shot and eleven people were killed over the weekend these shootings are not random they are fueled by gang conflicts we know who they are and we continue to send a message that it's ok to commit these crimes by not doing anything as a community to shootings effected victims if young as eleven and as old as sixty two years old this is come to notice in chicago there have been two major marches blocking major thoroughfares in the city police say they will bring additional

patrols and they blame gang shooting in crowds the major outdoor event such as funerals and block parties they say they will be rolling those areas more but really it was a violent weekend but not even the most violent over the past year well reverend gregory c. livingston is the president of the social justice organization coalition for a new chicago he says the city's mayor rahm emanuel needs to invest more money in this advantaged communities rahm emanuel did not begin the corruption and i say corruption because we cannot continue to talk about violence and ignore the corrupt tree that produces it he did not begin the corruption or the segregation but we cannot allow him to perpetuate it either rahm emanuel for most of his administration has been sitting on a a half. in dollars of hud funds there were death designated to be used for low income housing and silly many of the folk in these challenging disadvantaged areas

there are people that don't know what their lives are like many of them don't have working toilets they don't have wi heat in the winter time or running water in the summertime and that money could have been used to make their lives better and i think if people feel better they do better but he has a billion dollars to fund or a slush fund where he hands out millions of dollars used to a downtown a million dollars a block but by the same token because it's fifty schools at one time and destabilizes there were hoods there you go to it's like you're surprised by the violence no we cannot allow this to be perpetuated there are reports that hikers are trapped after a new wildfire broke out in the u.s. state of california the blaze started near two buckle canyon in orange county just hours ago the fast moving flames have already burned between seventy five and one hundred acres of scrub a major disaster was the clear in california on sunday as more than

a dozen wildfires burning across the state. then you christopher robin film will not be released in china and many believe that that's because leaders easy i'm paying is prickly about comparisons between him and one of the lead characters we need to prove yes china has a censorship of the cartoon bear started last year with authorities blocking images on social media because people were likening poos appearance to she's room brown has more. winnie the pooh of course means different things to different people to many children around the world he's the adorable pudgy bear with a partial for honey but it seems here in china he has become an enemy of the state that's because a new film made by disney christopher robin in which winnie the pooh of course has a starring role will not now be shown in china no reason has been given china imports about forty foreign films

a year and while that quota hasn't been reached yet no reason has been given as to why christopher robin will not now be shown in china now winnie the pooh's sort of got in the crosshairs of chinese censors more than a year ago that's when images started appearing online contrast ing winnie the pooh with president xi jinping there was apparently a physical resemblance the most popular meme photograph of all is one which pairs a picture of xi jinping and then president barack obama with another picture of winnie the pooh and his good mate tigger winnie the pooh has in many ways become a symbol and unlikely symbol of dissent that's because loucheux bo who won the nobel peace prize and of course died in hospital more than a year ago was pictured holding a mug with an image of winnie the pooh on it shortly before he died it was

a final defiant stance by a man who had been a thorn in the side of china's government for so long now while it's fair to say that censorship under president xi jinping has been getting worse during the past few years you know as a journalist you encounter it every day here in china there has never the less been some pushback during the past few weeks just last week there was a protest by parents outside. by the health ministry here in beijing they believe the government is covering up the true extent of a vaccine scandal vaccines substandard vaccines that emerged were given to children for things like tetanus typhoid and also hooping cough as well as rabies but as we now know those vaccines were sub standard and then just a few days ago there was a curious essay that was published online it was written by

a prominent chinese academic and he criticized president xi jinping and said it was time for the communist party to look again at what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when those protests ended in so many people dying he said it was chime for the chinese government to re-evaluate what happened in one thousand nine hundred nine and he also said it was time for the party to reverse its decision to end two term limits for president xi jinping president xi at the moment of course arguably the most powerful chinese leader since chairman mao. that people in europe are being told to stay hydrated as a record breaking heat wave sweeps across the continent here in london where it's been unseasonably hot many residents are buying bottles of water to keep cool but that's led to a surge in plastic waste that's one stone so reports. london may have been the city that pioneered the public drinking fountain but its popularity has

dried up since this one was built in eight hundred fifty nine. only a handful of water fountains exist in the capital today as more people reach for bottled water to quench their thirst now with the growing threat of plastics to the environment london wants to bring a new generation of water fountain to the british public. earlier this year mayor sidique khan announced a pilot scheme of twenty water stations to be built it's part of a nearly one million dollar project to reduce pastika waste in london over the next three years they're being installed in shopping districts and commuter hubs and if they prove successful the project may expand the scope for expanding the extent over availability of water for london is is huge we need to make sure that people have access to water and then not having to pay for it but the of the other benefit that would come would actually be in reducing congestion if you move water in pipes

then rather than in plastic bottles that have to be transported by lorry you reduce the number of lorries on the road you reduce the road danger and you make your city streets into healthier and better places to be every minute one million plastic drinking bottles are bought around the world in britain more than seven and a half billion single use water bottles are used every year london is the biggest consumer and the worst for recycling the average adult buys one hundred seventy five plastic water bottles a year less than half are recycled many of them end up here in britain's waterways . this small team of volunteers is working with the charity thames twenty one they're part of thousands of people who help clean and monitor the rubbish that flows through the river each year times twenty one thirty about ten percent of the rubbish they collect here is plastic half of that are single use plastic bottles like this one and just a few months ago volunteers here in london collected more than four thousand single

use bottles in just one day the charity hopes the new fountains will make a difference one of the reasons that people are all bowing water is because the don't have access to drinking water when there are about the london drinking fountain fund is going to fund twenty new fountains that's a great start we certainly want to see move but we have very hopeful that people will start to use them and hopeful that more people will think of the environment and turn on the taps instead of turning to the bottle cap and starts on al-jazeera london. and now the top stories on al-jazeera iran's president hassan rouhani has given a television interview accusing washington of being untrustworthy just hours before u.s. sanctions come back into effect the sanctions were triggered by donald trump's decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal rouhani accused trump of

waging psychological warfare on iran. that's. the person who is abandoned because the nations is trump and his government and he is doing something which is against the iranian people against the interests of iran. if there was honesty iran would come to negotiation. the us sanctions contradict any intention to negotiate how can we be honest about wanting to negotiate if you bring sanctions against children people run. a business partner a partner of donald trump's former presidential campaign chair has been testifying in court rick gates is a star witness in the tax fraud trial of paul man of ford who worked in trump's campaign for five months it's also worked for the president's election campaign and it's told the court that he stole money from metaphor and helped him file false tax returns at least nine hundred people are known dad died in an earthquake on the

indonesian island of long book thousands of others were left homeless after sunday's six point nine magnitude quake the country's national disaster agency says the number of those killed is likely to increase. saudi arabia has expelled can a dozen bassett or and frozen trade agreements the saudis accuse canada of interference for urging the release of jailed rights activists at least twenty three people most of them young girls have been rescued from an alleged prostitution ring in northern india they were found in a privately run sheltering to prod the state after one of the girls escaped and went to police those are your headlines my colleagues and though we'll have more in half an hour i'll see you tomorrow my cuba is next commercial capital yangon is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive on borrowing money from merciless loan sharks is their hold inside this cycle of debt one when east on al-jazeera.

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