this is zero. and i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.s. three imposes sanctions on iran and tells countries around the world it's time to choose sides diplomatic dispute intensifies as saudi arabia suspends flights to canada. more than two hundred thousand homeless almost one hundred dead indonesia struggles with the aftermath of sunday's earthquake. and another piece in the malaysia corruption scandal a cease superyacht arrives as the former prime minister has summoned back to court

. new sanctions against iran have now come into a four into force that is a result of president all trumps decision to pull the u.s. out of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal iran's president says the tough administration is waging psychological warfare on the iranian people sanctions are likely to weaken iran's of currency which has dropped sharply since trump's decision the u.s. has stopped imports from iran including food cars and carpets the sanctions also limit iran's ability to buy raw materials like steel and coal as well as precious metals and then at the start of november more sanctions will kick in as will target iran's oil industry and foreign banks that do business with the country so we begin our coverage now with same bus ravi in tehran. in a televised interview on the eve of u.s. sanctions snapping back into place iran's president admonished america praised his

european allies and asked his people for a little more time to fix the country's economy and that to push that are they going to have him standing we need more solidarity we should be more united i'm telling my dear people god willing with your help we will get through this problem these problems won't be long term problems if we become united if we stay together to increase our exports to increase our production to be good to each other to fight corruption to have more transparency we will get through these problems america is not able to do anything to bring us to our knees. he mentioned china and russia several times a signal that iran intends to continue its pivot toward strategic economic partners to cope with yet more american economic pressure. and with the latest comments by the european foreign policy chief perhaps there is a reason for iranians to be optimistic we in the european union. they did

our. very much up to date. with this this is a legislation the european union has in place to protect european businesses from the effect of secondary sanctions of sanctions that the u.s. imposes outside of that we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade with so there is also a matter of i would say trade sovereignty to be protected mongering he says european countries are encouraging small and larger companies to increase business with and in iran saying a strong relationship with iran that helps to preserve the twenty fifteen nuclear deal is a security priority for europe. while iranian see european policy as business friendly they say it hasn't changed the reality on the ground it's about time you.

will be imposed the harder the station will be for the people and no one is satisfied it was a country that other countries pushed to be like in the past now it's trying to be like other countries the economic situation is horrible. i'm so worried about my life future country and as a young girl i'm worried about my job there are no job opportunities and i'm afraid of losing my job the value of the iranian currency the reaal is still in shambles and foreign direct investment that left after the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal has not returned despite european assurances scattered economic protests across the country signal growing public discontent with economic conditions but the worst is yet to come in november more u.s. sanctions will go into effect this time striking at the very heart of iran's biggest source of revenue oil and gas zain. it is a few minutes ago president tweeted to celebrate the sanctions this is what he said

anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states contested that claim or come from china which has made it clear it has no intention of being bound by american sanctions for more on that it's good adrian brownish wants us live now from beijing so. donald trump is saying. china saying it's them did he that particular calculation. you know it's difficult rachelle to know whether he's referring to companies or or countries we have seen in the past that the united states has punished chinese companies most notably the telecommunications company it was accused of violating previous sanctions with iran and recently that company was punished and punished severely by the u.s. administration so trump has demonstrated that the long arm of the united states is very long indeed as to what will happen now well we still don't know china insisted

remains steadfastly opposed to sanctions of course it would say that because of course china imports more oil from iran than any other country china is iran's most important trading partner and in fact during the past few years trade between the two has risen by more than eight percent so china provides a key economic artery to iran and that is very important right now and of course china needs the oil that it imports from iran because energy security is so very important to china because anything negative in that regard starts to threaten things like economic growth and nothing matters more to china's ridge leaders right now than economic growth at a time when the the trade war with the united states is already starting to have an impact and what the iran issue has done is in effect potentially open up a new front in the trade war between china and the united states to underscore that

you know the importance of iran to china let's remember that when trump first threatened to him reinstate sanctions on iran back in may the first country that iran's foreign minister paid a visit to was beijing and a month later the iranian president was here and president xi jinping of course was also in iran back in two thousand and sixteen iran is important to china richelle for another. important reason china is seeking to expand its economic influence in the middle east and central asia through its so-called one built one road project and that is the most important project of all to president xi jinping right now right andrew brown live for us in beijing adrian thank you but because he is an economist at the vienna institute for international economic studies he joins us now from vienna we appreciate your time so much so the landscape now compared to

what it was pre two thousand and fifteen before this agreement is different this time it is clear that china seems to be lining up with the ron russia is even the e.u. is saying let's not do this so how does that indicate to you that things might play out a little different this time because iran is not as isolated as it was before. well to my understanding. in two thousand and twelve when the sanctions the sanctions were intensified and it was the coalition of countries china russia european union many other countries and us and it was very effective and since then or much before that the iranian economy somehow diversified its trade linkages and investment linkages to more ease to china to india more recently to russia so iran's trade agreement with european commission to improve its trade relations with

russia and other countries in central asia so the only loss was the european union trade relation that after d.j. soup it was somehow increased so the investment rushed in to iran actually be placed investment in now it's meant a new investment from the european union to iran but recently since actually seems january two thousand and eighteen after several announcements by president trump that he was trying to get out of the deal these companies somehow announce that they would like to get out of iran's economy but the recent. measure written the measure that was came in force today by the european union that is blocking the sanctions by the united states could play something differently in fact it could be effective in few manner is the first thing is that the

united the european union is showing its support to the way and showing that they want iran to implement its. somehow its responsibilities by to deal and in addition to that they european union wants to somehow facilitate trade and investment video but it's going to be different. actually in my opinion. in my opinion it will help the small and medium enterprises from the european union who could do business with iran who are not doing business with the united states ok so let me ask you this what reason or why would iran come to the table to to renegotiate any type of deal when donald trump ripped up the previous steel and has he even really been clear on what it is he wants well you're right actually this honoring the deal by president drum and some of the dishonoring many

of the rules based arrangement in the war it's very difficult for iran to come to the negotiation table would the us president but the pressures domestically are huge since january two thousand and eighteen to be seen on rest and we've seen that iran economy iran market is in panic that's why we observe the depreciation of uranium currency so iran is pushed from domestic affairs and also from foreign affairs to somehow come to a negotiation but the thing is that. that it's somehow a kind of war economic war so when you are in economic war you should consider all economic options and also all possible measures and iran is doing that as well so one of the measures is negotiating with the united states but we don't know how it will happen it's going to be just you know it seems like the two sides are obviously incredibly far apart but it gets

a thank you for joining us from vienna we appreciate it. sodhi arabia state airline has suspended flights to toronto in an intensifying diplomatic dispute with canada riyadh froze trade and investment deals on monday and expelled the canadian ambassador it's in retaliation for canada's call for saudi arabia to release human rights activists alexey o'brien reports. among those detained in saudi arabia is the sister of this man six years ago blogger. to a thousand lashes to be administered over twenty weeks for criticizing saudi arabian clerics now his sister summer is among a number of women's rights activists who've been imprisoned sparking protests from the canadian government and which in turn was met with a shop and immediate saudi response via state controlled television of. the kingdom used the canadian position as an affront to the kingdom but requires a sharp response to prevent any party from attempting to meddle with the saudis

sovereignty. the canadian foreign minister makes clear they will be no backing down . to canada's commitment to putting human rights at the center of our foreign policy has drawn some attention in recent days. i'm referring of course to the expulsion of canada's ambassador to saudi arabia and let me be very clear with everyone here and with the canadians who may be watching and listening canada will always stand up for human rights in canada and around the world and women's rights are human rights this new diplomatic meltdown comes on the heels of calls for the canadian government to suspend sales to saudi arabia opposition parties and human rights groups insist

canadian military vehicles are being used to crush political dissent the east of the kingdom. the stakes are high saudi is the largest importer of canadian military hardware after the united states saudi air has now stopped all flights to canada and a planned visit by saudi students has been cancelled the message is clear keep out of what saudi says is its internal business or else alexia brian al jazeera stephen chase is a journalist from the global mail newspaper in canada he says the education industry could be hit hard by saudi arabia's decision to suspend student exchange programs. if you're talking about the relationship the saudi can a relationship you know we're talking about a four billion dollar you know two way trade trading relationship be here i think saudi arabia would rank for instance twenty fourth or twenty fifth among our trading partners so we are not major trading partners. the real the real impact though is you know these you know the saying all politics are local the prospect of

the saudis withdrawing fifteen thousand so the students from canadian universities is i would say having a major impact it's concerning people greatly we're talking about hundreds of millions of not more billion billions of dollars of revenue that they stand to lose and i think people are quite concerned about that here in canada i think ordinary canadians tend to see saudi arabia as a repressive. you know with or a cherry on regime and they're a bit surprised to see the saudis. getting angry at them and not only that they're a bit surprised to see this twitter campaign which is taking aim at some of canada's. troubled human rights record especially when it concerns the treatment of indigenous people saudi arabia has denied reports it cut secret deals with al qaeda and yemen after the associated press said the king did pay fighters to leave some

cities and towns that support also said hundreds of al qaeda members were allowed to keep their weapons and recruited to join the coalition the saudi coalition aspen fighting the war in yemen for more than three years. rescue teams in indonesia have yet to make it to some parts of lombok island as a search goes on for survivors from sunday's earthquake at least two hundred thousand people have had their homes destroyed or damaged and the destruction of roads and bridges means it's proving difficult for emergency crews to get around the magnitude six point nine quake has killed nearly one hundred people that many more fear trapped under rubble. we must still be in trauma after three to six months i don't think we'll be easy to return to normal life we need to do with slowly because we were really traumatized we didn't all sleep indoors what's our plan for the future we don't know and there have been stories of survival to people as and pulled out of the rubble alive one man was trapped under

a mosque that collapsed on sunday was found after rescue workers has had the machinery clear all of the debris. and joins us live now from. where you are today have people been found alive there. well we shall know here at this mosque nobody has been found alive today rescue workers are really really struggling to complaining they don't have the right equipment very few big excavators but very very few most rescue workers are basically doing their work manually trying to dig with their bare hands they actually have left this mosque for the night the rescue operation has been suspended until the morning which basically also shows the pace of this rescue operation going on in lombok right now there's a lot of frustration they also complain that things are arriving to lay. the

villages of course are also complaining about it they just showed up here at the most you know where are the rescue workers we can actually smell a very bad smell of bad bodies here right now which means that of course a lot of people seem to be still buried here so for those that are still dealing with this for the people that need a i understand obviously they want the rescue workers to come but is are just basic necessities getting to people. absolutely it's already now getting night and what people do here if they all go up to the hills they have been spending the night up in the mountain for the last two nights because it's very very scared to come down not only for the aftershocks we just had an aftershock a few minutes ago but also for a possible tsunami risk so they often helps with nothing basically they have no food in the water they are we went to one village which was also completely destroyed and some people were coming down and they asked for everything basically

to transform blankets for food for medicine this nothing there yet and it seems that so far the whole rescue operation and also the aid operation has been quite on coordinated so a lot of pockets have still yet to receive anything right. live for us in long island thank you plenty more ahead in the news hour including the messenger under fire journalists are targeted as the bangladeshi government tries to end student protests. my name is douglas. we meet a survivor of one of east africa's worst twenty suicide bomb attacks and arsenal on the brink of a major deal one that could help get them back amongst the premier league's elite clubs details as four. israeli tank fire in the gaza strip has killed two members of hamas and wounded

others those killed of reportedly members of the brigades the military wing of hamas israeli army says it had retaliated against gunfire at its troops our andrew symonds joins us now from gaza so what else do we know enter. well what we know is this that yes the israeli military put the tweets out with video attached a showing it says is evidence of how mouse outpost a watched in which at least two soldiers were stationed and they say that they saw fire opening out a poem that they would sell the eight hundred in a separate video show it's a year where you see a tank shell landing on the outpost two members of hamas military wing dead about six others injured in this attack no word from hamas on any preemptive action but they confirm that two twenty three year old fights is all dead and now

the israelis are saying that they're warning people living on the border areas of the gaza strip in the israel side to be very much aware and near as shelters in case of retaliation so again we're seeing a tense phase would say erupt but certainly it's taking place in this very sensitive atmosphere and indeed it is a sensitive atmosphere it's a very delicate time because there's talks to try to get a long term cease fire in gaza so what effect might something like this have. well really this is this is something that will cause attention whether or not it will lead to retaliation is open to question the last attack on hamas by the israelis was met with a threat from hamas that there would be revenge taken no action followed you can be sure that the egyptians in the mediation process over a long term cease fire deal will be using their phones on

a very active basis right now i've seen a number of house political officials going into talks this was ahead of this attack there is really a sense of of disappointment that the israelis have responded to the talks in what some people regard as a negative way but the israelis haven't really set out what their response is being all they've said is that the military after this security cabinet meeting on sunday that their military is ready and on standby for any action necessary it hasn't given and they're playing their cards close to their chests i wave had no word from nicholai rather than all he's got on the scene right now but you could be sure that there is a big move on to keep these talks alive to keep them moving there were positive signs some time back here in gaza that these talks were progressing the egyptians are playing a bigger role than ever right now in keeping things as quiet as is feasible to try

to get to a stage whereby peace can be achieved but no real guide on those talks lots of speculation positive and negative lots of of posturing going on about how mass right now are in talks here in gaza city as to what sort of response is going to be made there expected to go to egypt in person to discuss further moves so on hold right now there but in terms of the military position events are always unpredictable in the gaza strip so we'll have to wait and see anderson is live for us in gaza thanks andrea. rights groups are demanding the release of journalists arrested for covering student protests and bangladesh photographer and journalist was detained after an interview with al-jazeera his family says he is in torture and writes wants the government to investigate reports that he was jailed students have been demonstrating for nine days for a time for. the capital city of seems to be superficially calm

the parties are in control right now there is no reports of new clashes compared to the bloody monday yesterday where at least forty students were injured today on noontime in various places journalist made rallies and had a protest gathering over here we were standing there main demand was the government to bring those to justice who attacked them targeted only in recent days when they were covering the protests rallies they gave the government seventy two hours ultimatum to bring those people to justice and we also know a prominent photographer and social activist. was arrested and produced and told yesterday he himself told the court that he was tortured while in david custody but instead of giving him bail or sending him to jail the quote i love the debate to take him back for a fight of their interrogation this is a major concern here for the media community generally has been harassed and attacked targeted lee as well as those who are in custody been tortured now the

u.n. u.s. based human rights watch and amnesty international has the government to release showed as quickly now we also know that situation called for either escalate in a very tense political economic bangladesh facing general election and. so the students could possibly come out again to protest not against traffic but against their fellow students in recent days and if you meant let's we'll have the weather . and later more on our top story. i'm very chariots are in shock to root this used to be the home to america's biggest military base powerhouses a cosmetics factory during bolder nine hundred thousand dollars of business with the wrong. bus or how mexico's new president elect and tends to stamp out violent crime and in sports just in time for barcelona's latest signing or has all that

sport. been nice pink skies by the time my heart. or as the sun sets in the city of angels . hello there really has been a summer extremes across japan first of all at the beginning of july we had the devastating flooding and then that was followed immediately by a searing heat wave and just in the past few days we've had yet more flooding this from the yam i get a prefix journ the northwestern parts of honshu where we've had record amounts of rain and it did cause quite a few issues there over two thousand homes had to be evacuated and then as that eases and you can see why there's the area of town moving away but if that goes you can see this swirling massive cloud edging its way towards us quite a distinctive swirl really isn't it you can see quite a well defined eye that is a typhoon and it's making its way towards the southeast corner of japan now at the

moment it looks like it will raise the southeast but the eye of the storm should stay offshore and that's very important because of course that is where the worst of the winds are and some of the heaviest of the rain still we're not going to avoid it completely some of this in japan is still going to see some very heavy downpours as we head through the next couple of days it's closest point to tokyo we're expecting that around twelve g.m.t. all on wednesday sorry to say that should be wednesday so the winds will be around one hundred twenty kilometers per hour when it grazes the coast. the weather sponsored by cattle as always. denied citizenship. health care and education. forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical cruelty algis their world investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the

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watching al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour the u.s. sanctions on iran and come into force exactly three months after washington pulled out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal with tehran they target the iranian car industry food production and carpet exports and are likely to further weaken its currency but the e.u. which is also part of the two thousand and fifteen deal has called on its companies to increase trade with iran. saudi arabia state airline is suspending flights to toronto and intensifying diplomatic dispute with canada on monday riyadh froze a new trade and investment and expel the canadian ambassador it was retaliation to canada urgent saudi arabia to for human rights activists and indonesia rescue workers are still facing difficulties to reach some of the areas worst hit by sunday's magnitude six point nine earthquake two people have been pulled out of the rubble alive but many are feared trapped under collapsed buildings only one hundred

people have been killed and at least two hundred thousand people are homeless. so i want our top story and those new u.s. sanctions on iran according to the end. national monetary fund figures released last year china the united arab emirates and the e.u. are iran's main trading partners about nineteen point five percent of iran's total trade is with china the second biggest partner of the united arab emirates makes up about sixteen point eight percent and a very close third the twenty eight nations making up the european union tolling sixteen point three percent of trade iran's primary exports are oil and gas and other petro chemicals as well as free fruit in that stables its main imports are farming machinery and vehicles cereals along with iron and steel and the sanctions are also likely to affect its airline industry approximately thirty eight billion dollars and eels have been agreed between tehran and western firms but they

durant's airline industry is very much in limbo with many sanctions making it difficult to upgrade on aging fleet of planes because sanctions on iran have made many european companies rethink their investment plans but some small businesses are choosing to deal with iranians rather than americans david chaytor want to show us a ruined france where one company is doing big business with iran. the town of shah to ruin the volga log dates back to the middle ages at first glance its streets in architecture market as a classic of the region but delve deeper and you come across a suburb that comes out of the u.s. of a the biggest american military base in europe used to be housed here to fulminate to headquarters has been taken over by the french cosmetics company. they're selling more than nine hundred thousand dollars worth of ikrima and moisturizer to these lawmakers public of iran there's a rising demand for its products by the younger generation both women and men not

just in tehran but right across the country. the president of the company proudly told me she counts hillary clinton as a fan and she will not bow to the pressure from washington to stop trading with iran we have tried to value this risk and has more people hard to small company. but by two one a good one loyal customer so why exiting iran so we go on with small companies like this one won't appear on president trump sanctions radar but they believe the european commission won't be able to defend them they know who they're taking a risk. it's a risk the big multinational companies in france denmark take companies such as total and purges citron have too much to lose the same applies right across the european union through a treat from doing business in iran could turn into

a rout the idea over here is basically to suffocate the main economy and to strangle its financial system so i'm not going to allow for anything that is going to enable iran to be able to enjoy a balloon of oxygen coming towards. back in the chateau rue the american flag is still flying above a bread factory called harry's a local entrepreneur in the town started the business after being intrigued by the squares of white bread via merican service and we're eating now it bakes around one hundred thirty million loaves a year. the population is declining as young people move to find jobs the american sanctions meant to suffocate iran could also suffocate the town's hopes for the future david chaytor al-jazeera shot a root malicious anti-corruption agency has summoned the former prime minister najib razak for further questioning a luxury superyacht at the heart of the country's biggest ever corruption scandal

has also arrived back in the country after being seized in indonesia the ten or fifteen million dollars vessel was allegedly bought with money stolen from the state in two thousand and nine when salinas and kuala lumpur so what do we know about this questioning about what's supposed to happen today for its. well we don't really have more information about why he's been summoned by anticorruption offices but we do know that it's taking place just a day before he's due in court for his second appearance he's already facing charges for criminal breach of trust as well as abuse of power and this is in relation to allegedly misappropriating ten million dollars from a state company known as s r c international now nudge and his associates are also alleged to have stolen about four and a half billion dollars from a state investment fund the one you mentioned that he set up when he was prime minister back in two thousand and nine this is the state investment fund is known as one m. d.

now his questioning also comes as you mentioned the same day that a luxury your equity arrived at a port just about an hour's drive outside of kuala lumpur now on this your it is also part of a u.s. department of justice and talk receive investigation it's part of a civil four features suit to recover assets believed to have been bought with money stolen from the malaysian state now this vessel is registered to a cayman islands company but it's ultimately is thought to be a malaysian citizen a fugitive known as joe lo or lo take joe as his full name now he does not hold any positions in government but he is thought to be the real mastermind behind this complex sophisticated plan to steal money from one end so the government also has announced the closure of a saudi funded anti terrorism center what else can you tell us about that.

well just a little bit of background about the center so this was a center that was set up about a year ago after the saudi arabian king visited malaysia is known as the king solomon center for international peace it was launched and it was meant to combat extremist teachings although some critics have said saudi arabia really isn't the right partner for this considering its strict interpretation of is islam has inspired islamic state ideology. the government hasn't given a reason for the immediate closure of this center but saudi arabia and the former malaysian government led by prime minister had extremely close ties when none shipment was discovered but none had seven hundred million dollars deposited into his personal bank account not gypsy.