result of it you will have a leaky sanctions regime that is not going to be as effective as the previous round of sanctions ok so the areas i want to focus in on the places like russia and china and the e.u. let's say that they keep their ties they keep in place they even perhaps strengthen their ties with iran then what you talked about the u.s. almost bullying these countries i mean is the potential for relations to fracture even further between the u.s. and those countries. so you have to put that in the wider context the reality is the trumpet ministration didn't just would draw from the nuclear deal with iran it has exited from all the other multilateral agreements that it has had with other countries like on the climate change or trade agreements with the europeans it is living tariffs against friends and foes and as a result is really a knitting a lot of other countries who have very limited motivation in helping or helping the

u.s. pressure ron and also there are now real questions about the ultimate objective of the us here in the past it was clear that the u.s. wanted to put a lid on iran's nuclear activities now there is a long list of demands that almost amounts to a surrender of the iranian regime or regime change in tehran and this changing of the goalposts renders other countries reluctant to comply would sanctions not knowing that the u.s. actually would at the end of the day comply by any agreement the others can come up with and the right to look at the end of the day there is a difference here between europe and china and russia europe it has its economy much more integrated in the u.s. economy a lot of european companies have interests in the u.s. so they regardless of what the governments say most of them would stay away but in the case of russia and china you have a lot of companies who have unlimited footprint in the u.s. and would simply not care about us and posing fines on them well right in saying

that it's easier to take sanctions away rather than to put them back in place and that this may not be simply a case of phase one in phase two and they'll be this instant effect that the united states is looking for. well i would argue actually it's the other way around the sanctions were lifted in two thousand and sixteen but a lot of these multilateral companies did not go back into iran and that's why this first round of sanctions have had other than the psychological impact that we've seen in the past three months a limited degree of impact on iran look there was not a single major bank that was working with iran that is that has now left the country there was very limited foreign direct investment even after two nuclear deal and the chilling effect of the previous sent round of sanctions was still basically in place but but key here for the iranians is to survive in the next two

years until there is maybe a new president in the u.s. or the u.s. comes back to its senses and they want to muddle through and they think that with other countries complying by sanctions reluctantly or refusing to comply they have what it takes for them to weather the storm how do you buy it is really interesting talking to you thank you for your time today. there's also another report on this story which is where he turns from david chaytor and in france he found a local cosmetics company which is more than happy to do business directly with iran and isn't afraid of what the u.s. is threatening why one company in france won't say bye to iran it is a video report at al-jazeera dot com get in touch with us want you plenty of you have been contact details coming up on screen for you now with the hashtag a j news group peta has asked how does trump put sanctions on and then says he wants to sit and talk with iran what kind of diplomacy is this i think in short this is not my

expert opinion but it's the style of diplomacy it's the carrot and the stick alternating similar to what we saw with north korea as well threatening to totally destroy one day and then having the chap in singapore as well so that was peter wasn't it he was watching a facebook live facebook dot com search al-jazeera and that number you just had on screen there what's happened telegram plus months in four five or one trip or one or nine will move on to a developing story ethiopia which is signed a peace agreement with the oromo liberation front of this is a group the government of long considered a terrorist organization part of a series of major changes being implemented by the new prime minister at the we've got muhammad ali following events from djibouti for us i mean ethiopia in the news a lot in the last few weeks in hama just earlier this week we were talking about the somali region in ethiopia talk us through what's happening with the aroma. kemal this is a huge boost for prime minister. because of the liberation from

a group founded in one thousand seven hundred three and has largely been fighting for the independence of the almost region from the rest of ethiopia is from these all ethnic group one hugging a rebel group fighting his government which is from his own ethnic group would have been a setback for his government so this is a huge boost for him secondly he removed the almost liberation front from the list of terrorist organizations just last month something we knew would pave way for this agreement that was signed in us matter today but one of the main reasons why it's coming now and not because almost in power you also have lost considerable support which was reaching them from a trial which has now normalized relations with ethiopia good stuff mama gerri thank you for that update from djibouti saudi arabia state line is suspending flights to toronto in an intensifying diplomatic row with canada on monday you'll

remember riyadh froze new trade and investment with canada expelled the canadian ambassador as well all in retaliation because canada through a social media account foreign policy media accounts. and rights activists kristen in toronto for us hi kristen you know we almost i don't use the word joke a but we almost joke about the fact that canadians are universally well hyped and here they are in the middle of the spat with the saudis how's that actually going down there . yeah canada is remaining defiant they're refusing to back down from this fight foreign minister chrystia freeland says bad candidate will continue to stand for human rights particularly women's rights and free expression activists that she singled out in her tweet as some are by bata we whose brother is re spotted we they're both

activists they've both been put in jail and rafe's wife is actually now a canadian citizen so you understand the connection here and why the foreign minister says she felt the need to speak out on this case in particular canadians themselves are i think it's fair to say shocked by the response of the saudi government they have actually been pushing prime minister justin trudeau to get rid of military contracts with the saudis for equipment because of saudi arabia's human rights record so the issues being discussed are familiar to canadians here and not many citizens are not certainly comfortable with with the business dealings with them now interestingly we don't know it looks like at the moment those military contracts will not be affected by this decision to stop future dealings with canada but how it's going to play out going forward not clear obviously a lot of money at stake there for canada as well as funding coming from flights the

saudis have canceled all of their flights into toronto starting on august thirteenth we're already hearing reports the cost of flights are going up and a really big impact students saudi students are being called back home in the next four weeks and it's estimated there are about fifteen thousand saudis and family members in canada to study so that's going to have a big impact on universities and their budgets here but officially from the government now very defiant and very much continuing their stand here not backing down from the from the comments that started it all ok kember. kimberly kristen kristen salumi in toronto thank you for that now let's get the thoughts from begum who is a women's rights researcher for the middle east and north africa region a human rights watch you told a little earlier that canada's allies need to publicly support that they need to ask riyadh to stop targeting human rights activists that is the reason my side

really be able to have such an unrelenting crackdown on activists in this country is because they know they can get away with it now if all of their allies stood up and said no we also as your friends think that this is a problem we don't think you should be arresting every single activist every single person in your country who wants to see a better side arabia in prison if they also often said that the saudi arabia will not be able to cut off relations with every single one of them they do have an economic vision which requires more international vestment but they have done this before they know that before when the swedish foreign minister in two thousand and fifteen also made some criticism about the human rights situation inside arabia they also cut off relations with sweden and now they're doing it again with canada knowing that canada could potentially back down and no other government would come to the fore but this could be done away with if the rest of their allies came up and actually stood by canada and said no this is wrong we as your friends are able to say this and you should take into account what our are concerns. so as we said

before sort of alluded to the fact that canadair is a country with plenty of allies and pretty much where light across the world so if we're talking allies it's kind of interesting to see the official u.s. statement on the saudi candidate dispute of cut and paste of it here from slate dot com this is where we found it in full at least very time language lots of comments about. you know sort of general statements encouraging saudi arabia to respect due process when it comes to human rights but the line of highlighted canada and saudi arabia are both close partners of the united states i refer you to the canadian and saudi ministries of foreign affairs for further information so matthew godin with us now senior fellow in the europe program at chatham house joining us on skype from london. i described that as time matthew it's almost just completely non-committal saying we don't really have a view on this go and talk to them about it is that what you'd expect from the united states or is that maybe what we expect from the united states under

president trump. well thank you for having the on this is certainly a very different response from what we would have see under the previous u.s. administration and president obama i think it's better to say that many people within the canadian diplomatic community have be rather surprised by this response it certainly suggests that president trump does not view the canadian. ally his northern neighbor as the pressing priorities in this dispute and i would suggest that actually what we see in the response from america is really a reflection of the way which trumps administration have got much closer to the saudi kingdom and that in turn i think reflects a lot of mutual business interests which trump is clearly putting before his

traditional or his country's traditional alliances with other nato members we can be guilty of focusing a little too much sometimes on the u.s. and on donald trump said tell me about canada's other allies and who else should maybe be standing up here. well to be frank i was expecting not only be a lot more from the united states but also from europe and in particular the european commission i think more generally the european union has struggled on me on the international stage and i think in this case they struggled to rally around their canadian ally and also of course their liberal canadian ally justin trudeau in a way that you might have otherwise expected i think also this partly reflects the way in which saudi arabia has become more aggressive in its foreign policy stance it's become more assertive and willing to push back against. other nations in the

west and of course that in a way speaks to the weakness of the european union on the international stage it should be more unified it should be deliberate a coordinated response with canada and it just currently isn't there and i think there's a great deal of frustration certainly in london and also with brussels and paris and berlin at the just the slow pace at which the diplomatic community appears to be moving nato cannot as a member of knights how can it as a member of nafta at least lots of things i just wondering about such alliances and whether in this day and age in twenty itanium how much or how much notice we have to pace them because as you say donald trump and the united states for example a much heavier to align themselves with an ally like saudi arabia rather than an actual you know treaty pot not like canada. i think we had an interesting debate in the website about dulce the election of donald trump does the rise of populism in

the way that signal a a substantial change in these international alliances and i think some people were reluctant to believe that rhetorical would manifest in action i think what we've seen in this case is that actually that role that this rhetorical of shifting international alliances away from the traditional nato partnerships is actually real and the trump dots you business connections a big investment in infrastructure projects for example which the saudis have been very closely involved with as being real markers of international diplomacy of course but it's also not forget that the saudis have invested quite heavily in canadian projects and will probably be in those business interests to suit to see political objectives too so it may be i suggest this as i hope this is that we're

beginning to see corporate interests business interests actually transcend what is usually seen in the international community and i think a run from chatham house we still managed to come back and talk about donald trump in america didn't wait but it's just the way the horror of those days matthew from chatham house thank you this is the news good if you want to us on facebook lied about to find out how wildfires can actually create their own weather system that is for my friends and i jack plus and then later rescued from a prostitution ring police press premier league doesn't go from a private shelter in india raising questions about government policy. hello there we're still seeing plenty of wet weather across the black sea and the caspian sea we look at the satellite picture we can see a great deal of cloud just a few bits and pieces of gray cloud that's indicating that most of the cloud here

is low cloud but it's still giving us some rather violent storms so a few showers during the day on wednesday but i think it's looking wetter for thursday some of us here particularly in the northern parts of turkey are looking at some very heavy rain that could be accompanied by some gusty winds as well for the northern parts of iran there's a risk of a shower here but i think for thursday it should be a bit drier towards the south is just hot for us now baghdad forty five degrees now here in doha it's not been too humid over the net last few days and our temperatures will get to around forty one degrees on wednesday and again not too sure at the winds coming down from the northwest thursday will bring a change though the winds this time will be drawn in from the east amount will bring in more humidity so it will feel very sticky along the south coast of oman and into yemen there be a good deal of cloud here that could give us a few spots of drizzle at times down towards the southern parts of africa and here it is generally fine at the moment but it is changing as we head into thursday we got this developing system here that's going to give us some heavy rain and some

snow over the mountains as well so expect a wet one here. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have a new generation scrolling up to understand better our relationship with a net for a while then soon there will be nothing left facing reality or our friends and allies played a positive on preventing and his condition for taking place here the story on talk to al-jazeera august on al-jazeera european muslims today are facing the consequences of having their faith flicked on the tax even though day two of fictions of the bugs the largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta will host athletes competing in a mix of traditional and the limbic sports a vibrant new series of character led documentaries from immigrant neighborhoods across europe a series of reports about the state of the world's forests and what's being done to

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