tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera August 10, 2018 2:00am-3:00am +03
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the poorest country in the region one of the poorest in the world and now it's destroyed with millions displaced tens of thousands of casualties as you're mentioning and somewhere between disease and bombardment certainly the country is on its knees from from from history and you're probably too young to remember that but certainly in one thousand nine hundred six we've seen an action like that stop the israeli war in lebanon we've seen a kid die in his in his father's arms stop the war in gaza we've seen it happen latin america we've seen it happen in various parts of the world at one point there is that one image that just summarizes the entire tragedy of the war and somehow shakes people into changing their path i would hope that death of tens of yemeni children vic a shooting and studying the religion would be enough reason to people to say now ok you know what it's that monmouthshire thank you very much and still
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ahead on the program zimbabwe's senior opposition figure tendai biti says he'll keep on fighting up to being taken into police custody. on the frontline against a deadly disease congolese health workers race to vaccinate people against a boner. hello once again we've seen on the edges this chozen pakistan around the caucasus and decent showers but in the middle throughout iran in particular nothing a toe and tempers again have been hovering around the fifty mark just over the border from iraq this past of iran this is not a big surprise is just persistent the forecast for showers and from the caspian sea closely to southern caspian is still there lies
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a ridge to run otherwise dry and dusty forty five is still a constant temperature in the middle of iraq in the breezes to the suddenly quite dusty back on the coast lebanon for example by route is thirty one sunny degrees a dry ones as well it's not humid indeed it has been humid recent they get as the wind dropped out around the gulf states qatar in particular and thirty nine hints at more of the same as does the cloud has been some big showers recently in the southwest of saudi and this hints of the potential for more shots of course of her life is still in existence in salalah and increasing breezes lots of dressings and dustier in its attempts as in bahrain and in qatar and it also suggests all a few a showers around in saudi but they're still potentially there in the southwest or in yemen. denying citizenship. health care and education.
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forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical cruelty algis their wild investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the wild. silent abuse. the top stories. a saudi air r.t. coalition air strikes schoolchildren in yemen. killing fifty people twenty nine of them children under the age of fifteen. the saudi led coalition has
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released a statement saying the strikes were aimed at legitimate targets. was blatant and deliberate. the russian ruble has tumbled to its lowest point in two years after the united states impose new sanctions over a chemical weapons attack on a former russian double agent the kremlin has rejected the sanctions as illegal and says it's begun working on retaliatory measures. reports from moscow. well the kremlin response is that this is categorically unacceptable illegal under international law they say they've claimed again that they had nothing to do with the poisoning of the script and that these new sanctions are essentially inconsistent with the atmosphere of corporation that they felt they got from donald trump of the helsinki summit with running with putin some weeks ago now or they're saying that washington is an unpredictable actor on the international stage and
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they don't know yet what they're going to do to respond because the kremlin says it doesn't have enough information about what these u.s. sanctions actually are. however this is in concert with another package of sanctions that looks to be shaping up in washington d.c. has rattles russian markets the ruble has fallen to its lowest level in twenty months and russian stocks and shares are being here to the script how sanctions come into bundles the first bundle comes into play on august the twenty second and involves limits on the exports of u.s. goods that's washington considers to be of national security importance then if the d.c. does not get the assurance from moscow that is demanding that it won't use chemical weapons again a new round of sanctions comes in in ninety days time and that will be as they put it more draconian then this separate package of sanctions that is being.
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cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states best interests. attacks are continuing on both sides of the gaza israel from tear with at least seven people injured on thursday.
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and here hamas called for a deescalation of the confrontation after an eye test trikes by israel left three palestinians dead one of those killed were a pregnant woman and her child the strikes were in response to hamas rocket fire into southern israel. the message is very clear that israel should disturb its aggression and military attacks against gaza and gaza is not open area for open playground for israel to target and the time and where and to strike here or there i think that now the resistance sent a very strong message that we could stop you we can be kind of the terrorists and we can also act for your crimes against our citizens because i know that it's difficult for us now to lose someone but i think also we have to give a listen to israel and said that we are not. you cannot swallow gaza easily you cannot target people easily you cannot target people and after that you go back to the hell of it will go to other other with you have to pay the price stephanie
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deckers in west jerusalem for us stephanie what's the latest from gaza right now. well it's not quiet there remains an exchange was a couple of hours where nothing happened early in the off to noon and then over the last couple of hours has been rocket fire outgoing one of them actually reaching back shaver which is forty kilometers east of the gaza strip that's the furthers any rocket has has gone since the two thousand and fourteen war and just in the last couple of hours we've had a massive air strike west of gaza city on the cultural center there was a warning of residents in the aerials and multiple what they call the taps on the roof sort of almost like a slight drone strike before the building was completely taken down and of course in this age of social media and because of been these warnings is a lot of video now coming out that shows the moment that the center was completely demolished so a lot of people in gaza shocked as to why this building would be targeted and there's been no official comment response from the israeli army they usually do
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comment on any sort of these airstrikes or targets they carry out nothing at the moment so when just in the last ten minutes of my phone alerts coming in of rocket fire in the in the sort of border regions of gaza we need to confirm that still but it just gives you an indication that this is very much an ongoing situation and what we expect from the israeli security cabinet meeting. well there reading at the moment remaining very tightlipped there really are only a couple of options on the table are and one of them is this long term ceasefire that there's been intense diplomatic negotiations with egypt with the united nations between all sides then there is a full scale conflict a war whether the cabinet decides to perhaps go for a limited offensive or an all out assault on gaza we know we've been reporting this for weeks now both sides don't want a full scale conflict but as always with this conflict things are impossible to
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predict anything can just tip over the edge will have to wait and see what comes out of that security cabinet meeting it remains. we can't predict it to be honest i think a lot of people uncertain particularly in gaza a lot of people scared no one wants another conflict stephanie decker thank you very much when i was about who is leading opposition figures has appeared in court tendai biti of the movement for democratic change alliance is facing charges for me announcing the election results and inciting public violence has more from harare. well he's in charge of breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he did nothing to me the main opposition leader had won the election under the law only the electoral commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence it's alleged that last week during protests he told opposition supporters to take to the streets to burn cars and burn
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property in harare he denies those allegations he's been granted bail but he's been told he is not allowed to address rallies or get press conferences until the matter is resolved he's also been ordered to surrender his passport. south sudan's president salva kiir has granted amnesty to former vice president rick machar and all rebel fighters involved in the five year civil war a power sharing agreement was signed earlier this week and gives kiran his former deputy machar eight months to form a transitional government south sudan's opposition has criticized the amnesty announcement saying here first needed to answer for the atrocities committed by his troops american cargo ship carrying soybeans has become a symbol of a trade war between the u.s. and china the vessel has been stranded off the chinese coast for more than a month it arrived on july the sixth just after beijing imposed a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. ships owners haven't decided what to do next the chinese levies were
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a response to u.s. tariffs on goods worth thirty four billion dollars adrian brown has more from beijing. well this vessel the peak pegasus has now been at sea for two months it left the united states in early june with the aim of trying to beat the deadline for the start of the trade war between china and the united states that trade war of course began on july the six and that was the day that this vessel arrived in the port of darlie and it seems that it literally missed the deadline by just a few hours the owners decided not to offload their cargo because if they did they would face levies from chinese customs of some six million dollars ever since then the vessel has been circling somewhere in the yellow sea while the owners decide what to do next they don't have many options though because of course soybean prices have been falling in the united states is now basically a glut because china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans and it's no longer
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buying from the united states instead it's buying increasingly from brazil argentina and doing more to beef up its domestic soybean industry by offering subsidies to its farmers china currently produces soybeans that are consumed by about ten percent of the population meanwhile the trade war between china and the united states has been ratcheted up another notch china applying tariffs to some sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. imports that of course was in response to what the united states did on wednesday analysts say that it's quite clear there is no sign of talks or of a truce to try to resolve this dispute and in fact the terrorists that are now in place could be there not just for weeks or months but potentially years. and the bone of x. nation campaign is underway in the democratic republic of congo to try to prevent further deaths thirty six people have died less than two weeks after the world
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health organization declared an end to the last outbreak or about money has more. of these frontline health workers in beni are trying an experimental vaccination against. the latest outbreak has killed dozens in the northern kibble and inter problem with of the democratic republic of congo they need to act fast only about half of the people who contract the virus will survive unless the people have enough knowledge about the illness this is why we've come here to help people understand exactly what ebola is people who get infected often died from hemorrhaging diarrhea and fever an important factor in containing an outbreak is through education. preventative measures are to not touch dead animals who regularly wash hands to avoid contamination but a buck or two never touch the body of the person who died of it if you have
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a fever get to a health center immediately have. another complicating factor is that the outbreak is at the center of a war zone about a thousand civilians have been killed in fighting between the army and rebel groups in beni since two thousand and fourteen one ugandan rebel group carried out an attack on un peacekeepers in december killing fifteen more than a million people have fled the violence health workers say reaching many of the internally displaced can be tricky north kivu also shares busy trading helps with rwanda and uganda. authorities are scrambling to prevent the virus from spreading is the reason we have experts here in the country who are experienced with this epidemic we have a very patent that we have that has to institute w.h.o. m.s.f. the un it's now a battle for the congolese government to prevent a repeat of the two thousand and fourteen about the epidemic in west africa that
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help break kills more than another thousand people nor about among the al-jazeera yes vice president mike pence has given more details about the trumpet ministrations plan to create a space force he said he hopes the project will be completed within two years and will help establish a sixth branch of the us military as commander in chief president trump's highest priority is the safety and security of the american people and while too often previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea and just as we've done in ages past the united states of america under his leadership will meet the emerging threats on this new battlefield with american ingenuity and strength
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to defend our nation protect our people and carry the cause of liberty and peace into the next great american frontier. dramatic video has emerged from switzerland of an explosive mudslide splattering modern rocks onto the streets of a village when you're going to report. a terrifying rumble. a sudden deluge just. as the cascade crashes through. horrifying onlookers. used to seeing such events. this flash flood in the alpine town of shovels caught residents of hosses by complete surprise resembling a torrent of comic lava. the basset flow had been triggered by a storm which caused
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a nearby river bed to expand and burst its banks sweeping across roads damaging everything in its path as the model hit with sudden violence and speed nearby homes were evacuated. there was one major complaint for residents miraculously no one was hurt coming wall of mud and rocks. look. now there is the clear up and the reminder of the devastating effect of such a powerful and destructive natural phenomenon. al-jazeera. or one of the top stories here now to syria a saudi amorality coalition air strike has hit a bus full of school children in yemen and the attack happened in the province of sada the health ministry says fifty people have been killed the red cross has
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confirmed it's received the bodies of twenty nine children all of them under the age of fifteen saturday current issues released a statement saying the strikes were aimed at legitimate targets because of the attack to be investigated. we've seen these reports it's very important as we said repeatedly brought into the conflict in yemen that here to international humanitarian law where there is an incident of this sort it's improved its investigative story and the truth is that investigation. learned from the calling for that in this instance as well. israel has carried out more air strikes in gaza the latest of destroyed a cultural center seven people have been injured three palestinians were killed in overnight strikes which targeted more than one hundred forty sites across the strip israel says it's responding to hundreds of rockets being fired into southern israel sporadic violence is happening on both sides of the border one of them bob where is
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leading opposition figures has appeared in court tendai biti for the movement of for democratic change alliance is facing charges for falsely announcing the election results and inciting public violence he was deported from zambia on wednesday where he was attempting to seek asylum. russia's stock markets and its currency the ruble have fallen after the u.s. announced new sanctions on wednesday washington imposed the measures after accusing moscow being responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of russian double agents cripple and his daughter in march the kremlin has called the u.s. action on acceptable to south sudan's president has granted amnesty to opposition leader rector char and all rebel groups involved in the five year civil war a power sharing agreement was signed earlier this week aimed at ending the conflict . an american cargo ship carrying soybeans has been stranded off the chinese coast from all new month due to escalating trade tensions with the u.s. it arrived on july the sixth just after beijing imposed
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a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. do stay with us inside story is up next. the united states reinforces harsh sanctions on iran but both allies and adversaries refuse to follow the trump administration's lead is this a new blow to american leadership or the first sign a new global power structure is beginning to emerge this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm about that hamid earlier this week washington reimpose that wide range of sanctions on iran the move followed the u.s. decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement formally known as the j c p o a the trumpet ministration called on the two powers to join it but also issued a threat telling governments to choose do business with america or iran not both the response has been a nearly universal no some of washington's closest allies have even promised legislation to protect their own companies against possible american reprisals. are you a little concerned that countries like china. but now actually more. of. the world or china monsoreau
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making progress we think the sanctions are biting already and we think they will continue to fight and cause significant negative economic consequences for iraq we really just encourage me united states to start talking to its partners in iran in order to be able to find a route forward for me. personally in the meeting i had with president trump i made it clear that the american intelligence has information that creates a different picture in terms of nuclear proliferation that was originally acquired and the agreement that was reached is no longer effective and if there had to be additional checks my opinion italy has to be willing to steer the relation with iran in this direction this is not the first time to us has tried to force other countries to go along with this unilateral sanctions in one thousand nine hundred six the u.s. passed the burton act a law strengthening the embargo against cuba by penalizing foreign companies doing business there another law dating from nine hundred seventy seven forced american
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companies not to follow the arab boycott of israel but extraterritorial sanctions have sometimes been successful in twenty fourteen before the nuclear deal came into place u.s. sanctions on iran hit france's largest bank been agreed to pay the u.s. justice department and eight point nine billion dollars fine. so let's bring in our panel in new jersey steven rogers member of the double j. trump for president advisory board in birmingham in the u.k. scott lucas professor of political science and international studies at the university of birmingham and in london and you say best city to breezy research fellow at the royal united services institute welcome to you all stephen raja's let me start with you why does the u. s. always as you that everybody has to just follow its fleet even if they don't agree
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well the u.s. doesn't automatically assume that the president on the president trumps administration he believes in the go she everything that he does not look with regard to iran the question each leader around the world has to answer is what has a rand done to advance world peace the answer is nothing so the fact of the matter is is that the regime has done nothing but create misbehavior around the world has not lived up to its obligations regarding that horrible deal and the united states is no longer on an apology tour as president obama was there is a new sheriff in town his name is donald trump business is not going to be as usual the e.u. and nato and other countries have always wanted the united states government to take the lead on a lot of worldwide issues president trump is doing that and now they've got to make
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decisions as to what side of the issue they're going to stand with and at the end of the day believe me there will stand with the united states that's cut lucas. we just heard there is that you know they us says that iran doesn't help for world peace well it's pulling out of the veto jeopardising and this deal going to bring any kind of world peace so bring us close to it. now our first audit i don't give two hoots for campaign talk i mean i care about political economic and military a fucks i am not a big fan of iranian foreign policy and what it's doing in the region for example its support of the assad regime in syria with the killing of hundreds of thousands of people but when we're talking about the deal itself the deal is not quote the worst deal in history the deal actually was containing iran's nuclear program ninety eight percent of uranium had been taken outside the country it had
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restricted development of centrifuges it had iran was adhering to the deal in other words if you really want to deal with middle eastern problems you needed to take the nuclear issue off the table the deal did that by ripping up the deal partly out of dollars from spite over barack obama and partly because of pursuit of regime change you put the nuclear back e n u d stabilize the region you don't make it any better. and they say that debris is it is their feeling in europe really that the u.s. just pulled the rug from under the european countries feet. i think so i think the europeans have done during basta to come to terms with even though what were perceived as the concerns over to deal with their main things being their absence of their mystery show from the deal this so-called sunset clause and the top of the spetum that are supposed to be conducted under the deal the europeans
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have been working with us to try to address some of these concerns and according to the same u.s. state department there was significant progress between january and may when a decision was taken by the us to withdraw from the d o two i'm afraid is concerned despite that troubled nation decided to withdraw the us from a deal and put the europeans in a very difficult position the europeans continue to be committed to this virus to deal and as we know a day continue to strengthen their support for it and to implement they just nation that it's going to make it possible even weeks limitation for iran to continue to abide by is an obligation but of course it's going to be very tricky for the europeans and russia and china to. enable the deal to survive without the us being a party of it ok steve i just need to understand this j c b o
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is that a multi lateral deal with several countries involved now the u.s. is going alone on this so far you seem quite confident in your first answer that everyone else will follow suit but why not also listen to to position of the europeans their concerns and also why not give them some leeway when it comes to their own relationship or their part of that deal. the president is listening to the other world leaders i remember when he was involved with discussions with nato and there was a narrative around the world that he's breaking nato that he's not listening to nato leaders and at the end that a nato rally behind the president and they began to pay their way with regard to military you know the military might in the region etc look it's
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easy to blame the united states for everything but the reality is the iranian government is not taking care of its people the united states government is not the threat that iran needs to worry about its own people just look at what we're seeing there out on the streets in iran they're tired of their government they're tired of corruption they're tired of iran sending more money to create mr for around the world to their own than their own people the president of the united states has made it clear that he loves the iranian people we in america want good relations with the people but it's the government that needs to be held accountable it's the government in iran that needs to be held responsible for its own actions when i say in reality they have been eleven and consecutive reports by the nuclear agency and all of them said that iran was complying so if you are now any other country in the
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world and if you are north korea for example and you're looking at what is happening why would you even negotiate with the you asked if he know a change of commander in chief will also mean that change of agreement. yeah i mean absolutely that in terms of how our trust who are at the united states looks today international community if this is something that of course has been raised by a number of countries including of course a day rainy and but also going back to steve's point i think about the economic pressure and their role that sanctions are playing and also the reaction ofsted different parties and companies so to do sanctions i just wanted to remind him also of the fact that already in two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve there was a distro guest set of sanctions which were imposed against iran to was a u.n. security council resolution there were you know this action in polls by the united
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states by the european union and by and number of additional countries australia canada you name it and even done not only that you brain and regime did not collapse economically but also the whole negotiation point that he's making did not really change the change came once rouhani came to power where iran dropped it is iran return policy and a number of issues team to lyme so i dare we come to the reality station that pressure of economic pressure did not work in the past and we are far away from that type and that one of economic pressure to was exerted in the past now because of lack of global support to the united states or it there will be a continued lack of strategic policy from the united states to worsen iran moving forward ok scott lucas now europe is not happy about this it made it clear.
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yet steve has a point that several companies have already decided to comply with these sanctions so does he also have a point that in the end europe will have to follow suit or does it have any exit of all of that order would it have to develop its own policy what could it do really. the e.u. can protect smaller companies maybe medium sized companies but it can't necessarily cover billions of dollars in protracted legal action so that's why you've seen companies like total and france like p.s.a. the french car manufacturer like siemens and they were in germany saying we have to suspend business for now but beyond that then you've got this fantasy world that stephen that donald trump or him look donald trump is not beloved by nato members that was a fantasy that you just heard there the idea has been not only on this issue but on others that the u.s. can bully others and many macro appealed to trump do not pull out of this deal to
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reason may appeal to trump do not pull out of this deal and the americans threw them back in their faces so in the longer term the question is where will europe stand economically and politically not a while the iran issue but on other issues when you can no longer trust the administration in washington and. steve this sort of rift within each you isn't that something that concerns the washington concerns of trump administration it has been since at least world war two and a closest ally things are changing now in the world isn't that a concern at all president trump is known as a great negotiator look there were three presidents of the baltic states here in the united states a couple months ago and the common theme that they articulated at their press conference was that we trust donald trump we trust his judgment there is no fantasy
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world here it is not a fantasy when the president of united states somehow through good negotiations got nato countries to pay their fair share with regard to economic military aid that is exactly what happened that is exactly what happened and now it's very true you talked earlier how it was campaign talk this is not campaign talk this is reality on the ground and you're doing with the u.s. media does you're creating a false narrative that this is a nonsense the fact of the matter is donald donald trump said he the pit would protect the american people first and he's doing it. scott that's reality it don't seem to agree with any of that well look i mean it for what it matters on the nato issue the nato members did not agree about out of donald trump they agreed to continue with the path of increased expenditure that they've been on since two thousand and fourteen so that's washington spent on the broader point in the point
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when you're talking about iran is that you have this sort of not only the idea that if donald trump shouts everyone will follow and that makes him a great negotiator when in fact there's a lot of distrust as donald trump as a negotiator including amongst the leaders of the baltic states by the way but then it's also the idea that in iran the. people are just waiting for liberation they're waiting for regime change and if you put this together what it's saying is is that the iranian people who are caught between hardliners in their system and the americans if the americans put an economic gun to their herds and say rise up that's when the iranians were hit the streets actually some opponents to do regime in iran say that usually when sanctions happen or hearts situations like that it actually emboldens the regime and moving on any say i just also want if you're iran . post the deed in two thousand and fifteen iran has has looked.
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to the europe mainly for its contracts and its business dealings now it's looking at russia for example as a plan b. . russia and china are both against. the unilateral move of the us. should iran where we see iran moving a bit more eastwards or will they also be a bit more pragmatic and say well at the end of it that president trump is in power for two years maybe six at the most just ride the wave after all they used to that i think it's a going to be a mixture of these two tendencies so of course we know that the preference of the iranians ministration has been since the very beginning since two thousand and thirteen to improve relations with the european partners and he has stressed that from a political perspective and economic perspective so i don't see the european preference dropping anytime soon of course because of the limitation of the european tools
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available to protect what the scope was mentioning are referring to is so small and medium enterprises it's going to be difficult for it iran just to rely on europe us so they are going to look at russia and china we have already seen a number of statements and discussion about neuro agreements on the energy sector infrastructure scepter between iran and russia and china and that has been also the tendency that we have seen during the toughest round of sanctions and in two thousand and ten two thousand and fourteen period in particular tool. basically enable iran and to continue to some extent its oil export and its investment in a gas fields but also into infrastructure by looking into the east their partner so i think it's going to be a mixture of to two policy is that if rouhani could choose it would go with europe
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we know that by fact partly because he will need to prioritize also a bit situation of the right an economy in a whole city printing laying off its relationship with russia and china who have been supporting iran to out all the difficulties and all this action imposition that and the. partners are going to be also looked at very closely by iran as well . steve so now president trump said clearly you need to do business with us or you do business was iran china said it will continue to do business with iran russia is pledging up to a possibly up to fifteen billion dollars investment in the oil and gas industry in iran the e.u. might have a legislation asa legislation that will protect its own companies. where does
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that really leave president trump on all of this is he's quite isolated from his. diplomatic partners on this specific issue. well a couple of points are the economy or russia is not good china is having some economic problems at the end of the day each of the countries in the e.u. are going to have to answer one question do you trust iran russia and china or do you trust the united states and at the end of the day we will find that they trust the united states but saying that all of what they're doing they're positioning themselves into bringing their ideas as we said earlier to negotiating table with president trump so all of this is a family squabble nato the e.u. the european countries who we've had relationships forever we're going to continue to have great relations but the president is a tough negotiator and at the end of the day you either deal with
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a country iran that exports terror that exports mr for a wide or you're going to work with the united states government who is trying to lead in the world not only united states but the world into some stability and peace so that's the answer that these individuals are going to have to the question that they're going to have to answer and they'll answer it by coming eventually to the side of the united states on this issue scott lucas one could also argue that actually at all the u.s. administrations have had more or less the same kind of approach when it wants to impose something on the international community maybe the defense is not in substance but actually inform. the snuffing you coming out of washington at the end of the day. i think that's an interesting point because i think we have seen
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previous administrations try to get very tough on iran we certainly have seen that for example with the george w. bush administration when they even considered regime change we saw it with the obama administration when in fact you know they took a fairly tough line to lead up to the two thousand and fifteen agreement but the huge difference here is is that. there was cooperation between those administrations and between partners such as the europeans and indeed between russia and china who were other parties to the agreement because you knew the rules you knew you could work with the state department you knew you could work with the national security council there was an element of trust here what has happened is that a combination of certain officials in washington such as the national security advisor john bolton who is committed to regime change and just the volatile nature of donald trump who has very little knowledge about the issue but just wanted to rip this up because barack obama did it means that the rules are gone you can't trust dealing with troponin on and again steve wants to make this into
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a fantasy where trump is like the leader of this coalition well i'd love a rainbow unicorn for christmas but it ain't going to happen i think we will however see countries be cautious we will see for example china be cautious as to how much it defies the u.s. we will see countries like india and russia maneuver so i think in the short term the u.s. probably hold certain cards to put pressure on the iranians to cause cracks in the economy but it's beyond the short term that we get real uncertainty not only about the relationship with iran but indeed the u.s. position in the region and beyond. and steve you seem to have something to add yet look under the obama administration and scott i'd love you to respond to this what about that jet with cold cash millions of dollars of cash in the secret of the night land in iran that's how the administration's dealt with that's how they dealt with their hands behind in secret behind everybody's back we have
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a president of the united states who's very funny and was very clear on his positions no one has to ever guess where he is so you're want to talk fantasy while there was a fantasy land when the obama administration was in thinking that and this is also this is a problem with our country before trump that we could just use our dollars to pay everybody off well donald trump is not going to do that there are going to be a planeload of cold cash for the record and i'm just going to we have we're running out of times i just want to give the final word to any say i mean you've heard to two gentlemen here. but again going back to iran and indeed to the rest of the world. do you think that with all what's going on we might see a new way coming out from to you on how to deal with for example washington primarily washington and i would say are they going to be able to forge their own european way and be a bit more independent and briefly please because we're reaching the end of the
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show. that's a very good question i think it's very not worthy to all understand that the europeans were not thinking they were going to be able to reach a consensus a unanimous decision to implement the legislation that was just approved the day your bill came regulation which might be a political tool and not be as effective as we wish in terms of protecting the european companies and financially situation from the u.s. a secretary sanctions but i think because of precisely the nature offered this situation and the fact that they don't trust of the united states and the mortgage on the iran issue even if they had been trying to work with them day saw that it is you know was take the unit out ready and without consideration of the consequences and most importantly iran is abiding by its own obligations and therefore the europeans don't really see any reason why did a c.p.a.
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should be jeopardized so i think the situation is very complicated i'm sorry i'm just going to have to interrupt you because we have actually reached the end of the show so i'm going to thank our guests even roger scott lucas at anything but syria to brissie a fake you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter a handle is at a.j. inside story from the head on the heavy and the whole team here in doha by for now .
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world's forgotten war dozens of children are killed in a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen. israeli air strikes hit more targets in gaza the un voices deep concern over the escalation in violence. to boys senior opposition figure tendai biti says he'll keep on fighting after being taken into police custody. in doha with the school says belgian goalkeeper. joins real madrid from chelsea in a mega money deal on transfer deadline day there are more coming up later this news hour. we begin in yemen where a saudi a mirage a coalition air strike has hit a bus full of school children it happened in her province it's health ministry says fifty people have been killed the red cross says it's received the bodies of twenty
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nine children all of them under the age of fifteen a saudi led coalition is released a statement saying the strikes were aimed at legitimate targets my motto is following developments from djibouti. still wearing his backpack this boy was in a minibus full of children had been when i went and school out in yemen but as their boss drove through a busy. city and saw the problems who was targeted by asterix both the t.v. station accuse the saudi to lead a coalition of launching the top. aid agencies say most of the dead are children under the age of ten that united national security council and the all the member states they should hold all pressure on both the warring parties to this song yes rights and sailings and civilians most people take that on the international human to not they have to respect that he mentioned law and we want an immediate cease
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fire is why are and then go back to the peace talks that is now basically outlined by the un special envoy to yemen. in a statement the sodium to coalition say its spikes in saga aimed at missile launchers used to attack an industrial city is salvo so that it be a wise thing. the statement for the accused the whole fighters of using children as human shields there are increasing calls for investigations into these all talks we've seen these reports it's very important as you said repeatedly that all parties to the conflict in yemen and here to international humanitarian law where there is an incident of this sort it's important its investigative story on the conclusions that investigation. learned from will be calling for that in this instance as well. so that it be on its allies up in fighting in yemen for more than three years ago is the fault he's aligned with. the whole of his control much of
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milf on him and including the couple's son four years ago they drove us so deep back government into exile this latest attack more casualties to the list of thousands who've been killed during this when the u.n. course the world's last humanitarian crisis. well it's close to my dad the coalition says it was a legitimate attack on it was the reaction on the ground a lot on the been under reactions from both the fighters and tribal elders in yemen who. called the sody statement. a follow. on saying it's true spokesman for the both the fight is said that this was a deliberate a tough one aimed at creating civilian casualties and say this was all it's any different from strikes kind of before in one. in kind of
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displaced people's camps hospitals and even mentioned infrastructure which has been largely destroyed and particularly in the southern region where these particular. what about the infighting there was one for seventy two hours while the world health organization is trying to push ahead with a collar immunization program has it been able to finish it. well they have accomplished only just fifty plus cent of what they set out to do with more than thirty thousand helpful work is in some of the districts often north and yemen conceded the key areas to be targeted because of there being call it a cases existing there the fear all the international community and the aid community easeful this to be another massive outbreak of call it
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a something that has been seen twice in yemen before largely due to the destruction of the water and sanitation facilities these no good supply of water to most spots largely because of the al strikes and these thousand this is dated a situation where they now have to immunize the people but they've only had reached two hundred six to six thousand of the five hundred thousand people they thought of reaching now while health organization officials are also saying. that they would need to cut out a second all immunization to those people of east and also try to get as many more people as possible but they're not sure whether they're going to get the cease fire they need to be able to do that now today for the time being thank you very much indeed. let's take a moment to remind you that just how dire the situation is in yemen on wednesday the norwegian refugee council released a report saying that in the two years since it was closed fifty six bombs were
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dropped on sunday our international airport has one bomb every two weeks ten thousand yemenis have been killed during the three year war the u.n. says two thirds of those are due to saudi led strikes if the fighters are also accused of causing mass casualties getting accurate information is hard but save the children estimates one hundred thirty children die every day from extreme hunger and disease and just last week the un as you heard warned of a new cholera epidemic yemen is now viewed as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in need of food assistance i'm joined now by a there is a senior political analyst. when those some of the kind of terrible statistics associated this but when you see those children killed in a bus and then the ones who are injured it is pretty staggering isn't it this is this kind of thing is crystal going on absolutely the tragedy continues in yemen but it seems there are so much tragedy in the region in general whether it's in
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syria libya by the stine iraq that you know clamoring for the sort of tragedies we see in has created a dock sickly and i say that with a lot of bitterness have created tragedy fatigue in the region there's just so much of it and clearly yemen is suffering more than the rest at this point in time being the the poorest country in the region and being subject to the kind of bombardment we've seen. there is a civil war going on within the country and as you say as you said we have the diseases and we have the depression we have the mumbai argument and so on so forth so it's really tragic. and what's even more tragic is that those who can do something about it want and those who want to do something about it can and hence it just goes on it continues to bleed as it were and we had to see some
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some international action especially from the aid agencies but not so much from the politicians we had the unicef regional director saying no excuses anymore does the world really need any more innocent children children's lives to stop the crew warm children in yemen it's because children particularly of the west suffer the most there what are the chances now of any kind of peace deal being brought about with that meeting in september you know the last few days are anything to go by we are in a dark situation because if one western country could sizes the human rights record of saudi arabia gets punished and this is really the problem isn't it as in canada it's definitely the opposite we've seen before when there is increasing pressure on a certain dictatorships or certain authoritarian regimes violators of human rights to really step up and try to do better in their countries but when you have the two richest countries in the region so the united arab emirates launching this war in
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yemen continue with it over three years being able to afford it for the last years and perhaps another three years and be able to strong arm western nations like canada and others into silence as in western europe as in the united states otherwise what explains that the united states france and the u.k. do not now step up go to the u.n. security council and say look you know saudi arabia can no longer do this everyone needs to ship out to geneva we need to discuss cease fire resolution to this conflict what about the role of other actors in because it is often described as a proxy war between iran and saudi arabia and others what what influence does iran say have on for instance stopping the things from from firing missiles as well this is definitely a regional issue and there's certainly a proxy aspect to it saudi arabia and iran and saudi arabia and iran have been. physically the most destabilizing forces in the region for many decades now. so
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certainly iran has to be brought into the picture now unfortunately because of the tragedies of the last seven years six years the arab region has imploded so even the likes of the arab league is incapable of doing much in order to bring people together and to be able to put something out on the table so every country is really busy with its own tragedies and egypt which once upon a time was a you know a power center if you were able to dictate certain things is now complicit with saudi arabia and again busy with its own affairs so really we don't have regional actors now capable of carrying the burden or guiding towards a solution in places like yemen hence you really expect others like the united nations the united nations security council to step in because of the vacuum in the region as i said before they are stepping in so once again this really puts the
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burden back on the likes of saudi arabia in the united arab emirates those young leaders in abu dhabi and riyadh and other places who want investments who have a mission about two thousand and thirty and creating this new paradise on earth in the region in the desert those who want to create a new nato arab nato in the region are definitely not setting a good example in yemen over what the future looks like for the region and for their countries and for the economies thank you very much indeed and it would of course have more on that story a nation and president. in the meantime can attacks are continuing on both sides of the gaza israel frontier with at least seven people injured on thursday. earlier hamas called for a deescalation of the confrontation after every night air strikes by israel left three palestinians dead the strikes were in response to hamas rocket fire into.
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