hi loveday morris from the washington post i want to ask you about this street demonstration demonstrations in iran in your opinion are they posing a tangible threat to the regime and have you just us plans with the israeli counterparts here on how to capitalize on that and ultimately would you like to see regime change in that context or do you think that that would be a destabilizing development at least well just just to be clear regime change in iran is not american policy. but what we want is massive change in the regimes behavior and among other things and the administration policy which is. across the board really was articulated by secretary of state pompei on a speech that he gave at the heritage foundation a few weeks after the president would through from the iran nuclear deal. the fact

is that iran's economy has been mismanaged for a long time. and the effects of this mismanagement throughout the country have been known the iran nuclear deal mitigated be effects of its mismanagement of the economy and gave the regime new life. gave this regime that's been the central banker of international terrorism since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine new assets that could use for its nuclear weapons program for its ballistic missile program for its terrorist support activities for its conventional military activities. and we saw the consequences of the provision of these new resources in not reduced iranian belligerence in the region after twenty fifteen but increased iranian belligerence in the region so it was i think a demonstration that not only was the iran nuclear deal. bad on its own

terms but the fundamental premise the fundamental political premise that underlay the obama administration's policy was wrong that being that if you could resolve the nuclear issue with iran its behavior would change and would behave like a normal nation i was flatly wrong it was one hundred eighty degrees the opposite of what happened. but as a result of. the lifting of the sanctions. the regime in tehran acted as though it had a free hand had a free hand in the region had a free hand with the new resources had a free hand economically and by bringing the hammer down again of reimposing american sanctions we've seen a profound negative effect on iran i think actually more serious than we would have predicted and what's significant about the demonstrations and. outpourings

that you've seen across iran is that to the best of our knowledge they're not organized this is not. some kind of conspiracy in iran it's just a break you are people saying they're fed up with the government. in small towns and cities it's not the educated elite in tehran it's farmers and workers and small shop owners who are shouting death to the regime not death to america death to the regime. i think it's a continuation in many respects of. the demonstrations we saw in december but i think they're continuing and growing and that's a that's an issue the regimes are going to have to factor in they know what we expect of them we've declared it very openly and when they're ready to conform to. to that that then there's a possibility of a settlement and if they don't then we're just simply going to do what the

president has said repeatedly and exert maximum pressure on iran to make it clear that they will never get deliverable nuclear weapons. hello how do you come from. two questions please most of our little regard to syria if russia and the pool. from syria and so u.s. can do it the meaning is that these are. well we'll have to handle it alone in other words a war might be a war between israel and syria. there were light years away i see the outcome and the secondly about peace deal there were some were reports it's going to be presented during your in assembly in september is that couric maybe you're going to wait until after is elections in the west and maybe. winter thank you. well let me say on the on the peace plan and work continues there are

a lot of consultations that are underway and there's no decision on the timing of when the full details of the plan will be announced. i think there's been a lot of progress in relations in the region as as a result of the process of going through the the possible outlines of what the plan would look like i think there have been dramatic few strategic changes in the middle east with the recognition that the iran nuclear deal has failed and failed badly and so that gives the possibility of realignment with israel and many of its arab neighbors that nobody would have predicted years before and i think it's incumbent on all of us to try and take full advantage of that but. in terms of the specifics of when the plan might be rolled out as i say you know no decision

made now on syria look it's extraordinarily complicated there. there are two sides there are bad seven or eight sides and that's one reason why finding an overall resolution is so difficult but what is absolutely central to american policy is that we're determined to finish the job of eliminating the isis territorial caliphate but also to deal with the consequences of continuing isis activity in syria and iraq but also to deal with the presence of the iranians that this is something that perhaps the obama administration didn't forsee whether they should have or not didn't forsee at the beginning of the anti isis campaign that iran obviously had a strategic plan to create an arc of control from iran through the shia areas of iraq into syria linking up with hezbollah. in lebanon that's not something that we

want to see. so we're still working through that every time iran has brought missiles or other threatening weapons into syria in recent months israel struck those targets i think that's a legitimate act of self-defense on the part of israel we have also acted militarily. twice striking targets in syria after the assad regime used chemical weapons the second time being during my first week as national security advisor we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and it would province we are obviously concerned about the possibility that assad may use chemical weapons again we had hoped that our strikes had created structures of deterrence to convince the assad regime not to do that that we hope that's right but just so there's no confusion

here if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly and they really ought to think about this a long time before they come to any decision because there's no ambiguity in the u.s. position on this point so this is a very delicate very difficult situation in syria but one that we're not going to allow the iranians to take advantage of. i think we can. thank you thank you ambassador bolton with fox news following your meetings with the israelis what tangible steps developed in terms of ways to encourage allies around the globe to put more pressure on iran and what role will president trump

play in encouraging this pressure. well we've talked a lot about the whole range of issues connected with iran i briefed. the prime minister and other israeli officials on the diplomatic discussions that we've had underway with the europeans ever since may. at the end of my first month in this office when the president withdrew from the iran nuclear deal. to explain why we did it and to encourage them to come along with us to put increased pressure on iran because of its malign activities not just the nuclear program but its continued pursuit of ballistic missiles which are designed to be delivery systems for nuclear weapons it's continued support of international terrorism and its conventional military activity in the region this is also something president my craw france has talked about and he and a president have had a number of discussions on that point i've had extensive discussions with the

british and the germans as well as the french we talked about all of that we talked about the efforts that the united states is making to ensure that other countries around the world that have been purchasers of iranian petroleum. have alternative sources of petroleum so that we can drive iranian oil exports down to zero we talked about. the president's determination in reimposing the sanctions that we're not just going to stop at where the sanctions were in two thousand and fifteen. our our goal our objective really is essentially we'd like to say no waivers to the sanctions so far after a little bit over ninety days with the first wind down period now ended we've only granted two waivers both very limited and and that's intended to be a very different kind of enforcement of the sanction. that occurred during the

obama administration but as i say we're not going to stop there either we talked about additional economic sanctions that could be imposed to achieve the president's goal of maximum pressure i just think this is very important because. the consequences of the reduction in resources available to the regime we think is already manifested in some extent in constraints on the could force in. in syria and iraq and perhaps also in its assistant to the who tease in yemen and that's very important the campaign for maximum pressure on iran to change its behavior as being outlined by the u.s. national security adviser john bolton he's in jerusalem put trying iran as a threat as he put it to the u.s. and europe saying that he is pleased with the profound negative effect of u.s.

sanctions on iran. talking about how shop owners farm as a coming out and shouting death to the regime instead of death to america how he falls that joins us now from west jerusalem we know. he's that ramp up the pressure against iran these therefore i think three days but what do we expect to come out in terms of new steps or new policy is there any indication of that. not so much that it is this is that the last of his of his three days here and it's very clear that both he and the israeli prime minister the israeli government sure are almost in lockstep on their view of the iran problem is benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister continues to outline it particularly in terms of the rejection of the obama nuclear deal with iran it's deleterious effects as far as

both men are concerned and the need for continued pressure for the sanctions of the united states have imposed to be shared and endorsed by the countries which so far have not endorsed it countries in western europe which of very much mourning the passing of that deal and the consequences that they fear there of obviously this was very much about iran this visit but he was also asked about the latest in the situation on the trump peace plan for the israeli palestinian conflict there had as he was asked during that press conference been reports that there could be a release of that document during the u.n.g.a. meeting in september he said that the consultations were still continuing that there was no such timing yet available to announce he said that he tried to put

a relatively good spin on how the progress had gone so far despite the complete rejection in advance of its publication from the palestinian side saying that it had the process itself had seen had assisted in a realigning geostrategic lee in the region and had enabled the united states to develop its relationships in the region and also reference to what donald trump said at a rally in west virginia last night during which he said that the fact that the united states had. taken jerusalem off the table in his words by declaring it's the capital of israel as far as no states was concerned and by moving the us embassy here to jerusalem that meant that the palestinians could expect that it would be there till next and that israel would have to pay a price for that well we had a response to that already from a senior member of the palestine liberation organization. she said that the theft of jerusalem could not be made up for and that it along with borders along with

refugees were the silly one owns of any peace deal going forward and so the idea of that seemed to be trying to float last night that by offering the palestinians the next big gift well as far as they're concerned they've already had one of the chief objectives of a palestinian state taken away from them and so their position remains one of rejecting this peace plan before it's before it's announced or how to force that there must use. people across india have been paying tribute to those killed by floods in care of the worst to hit the southern state in the century hundreds prayed for victims in the northern city of daraa done more than three hundred seventy people are confirmed dead candlelight vigils were also held in the capital delhi that's where volunteers have been collecting relief supplies and more than

a million people are still living in makeshift camps but some are returning home to thomas joins us now from college in carol as i said people been collecting release of lies so of some countries being collecting relief supplies has there been any word on indian our decision on whether they're going to accept international help. well india's government has told the times of india but they're going to say thanks but no thanks to well over one hundred million dollars that's been offered by most of the countries in the middle east where lots of ex-pats carol and workers work and over but it seems like a huge amount of money india's government says they don't want to approach the same as with icann lots of twenty saying they like to show india standing on its own two feet india's government hasn't taken pronate since two thousand and four tsunami and they say they're coping and they have enough india's government has placed what they initially placed seventy one million dollars to care or they just that eighty

five million dollars worth after some politicians here in the south complained that it wasn't enough but we've been out and about we've seen some of the amount of aid that is getting through and we're also seeing some residents who've been going home . we've met daniel thomas in an evacuation camp fisherman rescued him from his home on friday now he wants to go back but on tuesday morning the only way back was by canoe. this is you know if we can do it. because they usually go from there they go where we've already started. now or that if they do it we're going to see. as we were paddled for kilometers across over paddy fields and through people's gardens we heard and saw animals left behind and occasionally came across people. thomas' village itself is on relatively high ground the central

street almost now dry it's very different to when the greatest volume of water barrel through on saturday after thomas had left. his adult son had stayed behind to help rescue others and say forty could home he took us inside the news generally good a both property and people anybody in this town. low on getting over it will. get a lot of. use of. all of it. but one. that's remarkable when you see the damage. thomas his neighbor state to his house shook as it cracked it's still under water and in the front garden there was another hazard. but all day tuesday the water was dropping and back on the main street

a surprise two big wheel trucks from the national disaster response force had managed to drive in people just old and then queues formed fast. yet. they had the men brought the basics rice biscuits water they also brought hope. or under a server getting biscuits and hope our help with the reconstruction and cleanup. no we haven't seen any of that as yet on our trip to visit village of mine are there we saw a lot of people doing things for themselves and lots of neighbors helping out each other but no it hasn't any official help and those two trucks you saw that well they were unexpected and they were definitely the first external help that come in at all when they didn't stay very long probably about an hour in total and that's not to say that elsewhere in the state there isn't some reconstruction going on we haven't seen it with our own eyes the government says their priority is to get food

water and medicine to people and you can understand that and to look after the million plus people who have decided for now to stay in these temporary camps the reconstruction effort they will take years not months i mean some of these buildings you saw some of the damage to a wall there in that report that lots and lots of buildings have got similar damage in them and then there's just the sheer quantity of money that is now being left in people's homes as the water recedes and of course as that water recedes it leaves pools of water that breaks mosquitoes they can bring disease that's the big issue now keeping people healthy that is the real priority. or andrew thomas there thanks for that and just recapping our top story we're hearing from the u.s. national security advisor speaking in jerusalem valuing to continue a campaign of maximum pressure on iran to ensure iran will never get deliverable nuclear weapons patrolling iran as a threat to the u.s. and europe. bring you more on that after inside story of the back of the top of the

hour another full body in the news so do stay with us. china is keen to win friends and influence the need oil rich middle east business by the long term plan of china to secure its resources for the future the i.m.f. said the sub-saharan region as a whole now is expected to grow we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. once a wealthy nation venezuela is in financial crisis its currency is crumbling inflation could reach one million percent the president introduces a radical recovery plan but can it fix the economy and what will the political fallout be this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm venezuela was the richest country in latin america but now it's facing one of the most critical economic crises in the world inflation has skyrocketed prices are at an all time high and the national currency the bowl of our has lost much of its value some venezuelans could now struggle to buy a cup of coffee the cost about two million believers the financial devastation has led to mass migration starvation and political unrest president nicolas maduro blames it on what he calls an economic war against his country his critics say widespread corruption and the government's mismanagement are responsible in an attempt to solve the problem the government has introduced a plan to curb hyper inflation there's a new currency the sovereign bowl of our which will remove five zero banknotes it's backed by a crypto currency the petro that's pegged to the price of oil the government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent raising taxes and

increasing petrol prices for some drivers how are venezuelans reacting to the new measures here's our latin america editor lucy a new man in caracas. confusion concern and especially uncertainty of the only way to describe how most winners wayland's are receiving their new currency these are ten new until friday they were worth a million of the old body that is there the maximum amount that you can take out of a cash machine at one time but they are not worth more they just have five less heroes than the old bills faced with the world's highest hyperinflation the government has not just shade in zero it's off the bills but is raising corporate and sales taxes and increasing the minimum wage several thousand percent venezuelans the largest private business association says that this is not the way to save the economy. although it's necessary to raise salaries raising the minimum wage by thirty five hundred percent makes it impossible for businesses to meet

these new increases in an economy that is underwater because of a severe depression if hyperinflation is not controlled the impact of this increase will be totally counterproductive. president nicolas maduro says he'll subsidize small and medium sized companies for ninety days. here in caracas almost everything was closed on the first day of the new currency stable the government had declared monday a public holiday but added that bit of the thing is open complained this man not even the mini supermarkets were waiting to see what happened. indeed people are confused and with very good reason they don't know how to calculate what they're spending especially since the new salaries don't go into effect until next month. so how did the crisis develop venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world which accounts for ninety percent of its total exports so when oil prices collapsed caracas suffered a cash shortage the government suddenly faced with

a gaping hole in its finances had to cut back on some of its most popular social programs it tightened control over access to u.s. dollars leading to a flourishing black market and unprecedented inflation instead of cutting spending the government printed more money driving inflation up further its annual rate is now the world's highest and the international monetary fund says it could reach up to one million percent this year venezuela has also been hit by international sanctions with the united states for hitting dealings in new debt alright let's bring in our guest joining us from money to venezuela paul dops and he's a journalist for venezuela analysis an independent news site based in venezuela from washington d.c. is sonia shot a latin america analyst with a focus on venezuela and from atlanta by skype is charles shapiro former u.s. ambassador to venezuela thank you all for joining us so now i want to start with you will this new currency help at all. of course not ok this is not the first time that we have seen it go were meant in latin america

to remove heroes from the korean city that had happened in argentina and brazil in colombia but the situation was quite the free and even though that happened every four in the latin america in the seventy's eighty's and so on i mean so you're sorry to interrupt me hugo chavez also not zeros off of the believer in two thousand and eight. yeah that's true so ok it's not against that but till that time menace well it was a very different call on three deer in there travis time and his fellow west hill well to actually the wealthy is famous well the problem is the mismanagement of the economy because the ressources are there there's been a silence there say half her oil they still have row materials the problem is the mismanagement of the government and that's why this is not going it's totally and

too late what the mother of our meant is doing right now it's not going to help and i think this is going to worse they see the way she draws i saw you nodding along to what sony was saying i mean president maduro is saying that this is a revolutionary formula can you expand on what sonia was saying what do you think about all of it. gradually you see really is flooded with a straight face. if. you double go were. there when in fact it seems similarly her in serious value. in what the government's doing policy or is it will your. own. what charles let me follow up on what you're saying i mean this crypto currency that they're talking about i mean this would require online tools and infrastructure

even to make daily purchases i mean how would the average venezuelan even begin to to utilize something like this where you just answered your own question there can't be inflation will continue. bad government was the dropping water production was production that is where was the love it was nineteen forty. you know who disapproved warning they had gaping holes in their budget who juggles was broke what's happened is they're going all through the greater presses running. paul how were venezuelans viewing all this viewing this new currency if you mean all that's going on while the vast majority of us played it put that faith in the government once again and may may twentieth the last elections on a very clear ticket and this ticket was put off a state of faith and you know we need stronger measures in the economic area are we need something to be done now three months later we are seeing said only measures

from the government in the economic area and venezuelans i and to that extent they're quite happy to see something being done something drastic something different something created in the economy whether or not i'll be successful or not it's far too early to say of course but the general opinion on the street is that. they're well over at the how well received these measures because this isn't that something and it's being done they're trying something new and i'm not smile so much better than than than during nothing me in the deteriorating economic situation sonia beyond this what other steps is president maduro you know planning on taking and what kind of pressure is he under the mystically right now. well actually we are seeing that however nice for less collapsing before our eyes so they correct the crisis a menace for not just only the political crisis but also the economical crisis it's

not the for not to to avoid it is impossible not to see what's going on in the contrary even for the president often as well and i would like to say something that this key a key element for the economy and this is trust an m i question will be is anyone in by this will a trusting mother auto to lead the the their policies the economic policies still safe the contre from the collapse even the international community is there a trust in my less well or that will be the answer and if you can answer the question then you will see what's going on so the future those who look ready ross right now charles let's talk for a moment about all the trust at all. thought for a moment about you know the u.s. relationship with venezuela i mean there are the sanctions there are looming sanctions i mean has the u.s. state department been doing enough from your point of view.

u.s. state department is looking to. change in there where they. don't . only. need more sanctions. against. all this evidence is developed and there's a new court. sanctions against the petro. but the real answer is the amount of money to goldman sachs is lost and that's seen all the people don't like the way things go. was where it was are taking their money out and threw it at me and in fact did nothing that is where i was have fled the. neighboring countries and bad news for what it is there were no quick war. are jammed with that is where we clean are fleeing their country because of lack of food lack of medicine or war currency

they have no faith paul i just want to take a step back for a moment to sort of remind our viewers how venezuela got to the point that it's out i mean venezuela boasts enormous oil riches and crude production but it's been in steady decline economically over the past decade how did it get to this point look at the question a complicated ounce and i am in a time that we have available a fairly and that it causes of the economic collapse at the moment but i think we're in it as briefly as you can if you could. the main point is that and i think the when when i with with discovered in venice way that the whole economy started to shift and national production in industry and agriculture and a whole range of other fields got abandoned in preference for oil and this is still going on to some extent and now it's early in the last few years oil prices been

extremely high and there was a serious lack from lacking of the government in terms of industrialization of the country at this point to him to have the resources to do this and i'm currently still venezuela it's over dependent on oil and if you have not resolved if they take out of the ground they haven't been able to fight back on to me and become self-sufficient in especially agriculture but also in industry and other areas and so they're still very independent on imports now if you're dependent on imports you're dependent on currency exchanges and if you depend on current exchanges then to some extent you're at it dependent on a foreign currency and i will say this is u.s. sanctions have really hit home sanctions have had a massive impact here are going to sway the u.s. u.s. less sanctions from the u.s. department which have been replicated by canada in panda pan american switzerland and they use these sanctions have made it almost impossible for venezuela to employ court a range of goods including medicines and important subsidies for the food sector

because they're not allowing access to the financial institutions and venezuelan private firms and it's going to government benefit and public phones anyone is not able to pay for the import of the goods they can enable them to come pay for themselves if they will seven send them any goods because they're not they're not allowed access to the financial infrastructure which is of course dominated by washington and this is a brief summary of all of some of the problems we have there's also a lot more involved if you have corruption has something to do with it and i mismanagement of the whole series of other issues no but this is a summary i will give you charles it looked to me as though you might have been shaking your head a little bit during the answer there did you want to add anything. yeah i really wanted was one twenty or broadway down we both already you know it's sixty three one deficit problem. of us. very very. last year or.

frankly reverse every day. we didn't. really. grow are. we are we. still there sonja the opposition is calling for nationwide protests look would that be effective and what your kid the opposition do well actually we have seen that the opposition indeed has called for protests today but also the government so you see is a way of intimidating the opposition saw the government called for their protest and the opposition throughout that same time saw it this. that would be a bear the best example to see how the political situation has been in been a swale and why they're they opposition has the momentum and has left her less room

for her and for the opposition in order to exercise their liberties or their rights too so if this is actually bad if you would that the opposition can do i think this more on the international community with modest pressure on venice well in order to try to reach some soon because they're they only way out right now for venice well is that the mother of regime step aside who are for free and transported elections in venice well and gave the opportunity to all been a swell and still live in peace and prosperity and in the markets. paul you heard sonia talk about you know the fact that the international community as she said should be putting more pressure on israel but let me ask you this are there countries right now that are friendly towards venezuela are there countries that venezuela can depend on for help of course of course it's very important few of us i think to try to break this let's say west and centric opinion that well it's

dominated by europe and the united states venezuela has many allies in the middle east in the far east. and i would talk about china india. russia iran and also here in latin america there's numerous other allies in that. and central america and in south america. now these are allies to this special for example not a case of india which the interesting case in point because i must've growing economy a very digital economy and very vibrant. krypto economy sector they provide a lot of support for venezuela in these economic changes also the chinese economy with that tenneco know how i'm a very recent very recent sit significant eleven to the oil sector in venezuela to help. modernize its infrastructure so venezuela definitely has numerous allies across the world and also if the u.s. government has successfully brought about such

a regime change in latin america in the last few years and brazil by installing a dictator. by the election of a right wing government and honestly with the election of the ultra rightist in colombia and venezuela support it but that's not a set of n. it's whether it without allies in there in the region or within the world charles how do you see all this playing out regionally at least in the short term. well i must get in a different world than all of us. because it is written that is where those out is are are few and far between russia syria and china don't. go to get out. over the short term rescued unfortunately more chaos and that is where . the government policies unfortunately is flat out don't work and that's going to create more crisis and then we'll know more refugees leaving the country it's that is translated into crisis and all the neighboring countries and still along

the route to ecuador and question number that is where it is going both europe and it will be very charles and let me ask you just follow up on what you were saying i mean when it comes to the migrant semi there are so many people that are leaving venezuela and now this is causing some tension with neighboring countries as well i mean do you believe that there will be anti immigration sentiment that will be growing it's already happened in brazil and in. evidence getting so yeah i mean i have read it will show up unexpectedly they're not prepared for the states and. other countries are providing increased assistance to those benefiting but so. far. people are losing weight inside news where the poverty rate is eighty seven percent people can't feed their family. they are leaving the country and will continue to

do so so it looks like you might want to jump in there as well and add your own thoughts to that let me ask you as well i mean do you do you believe that this is just going to be leading to more chaos that the anti migration sentiment will be growing that will be causing more tensions with neighboring countries. yeah i think so because they knew measures economic measures imposed in minutes for lead by persimmon otoh they are going to cause that people are going to leave venezuela they buy they and their numbers will increase so the situation will be worse remember one of the first cases was in panama and also in the me in there the munich of republic now it's impaired or in ecuador people are afraid but actually there is a huge difference between on what's happened today in minnesota where there is no press have been or there influx of venezuelans live in the quandary

elect in america bought i what i would like to remind all others that it was not long ago when in venezuela or west a stable a western a stable to do asian and when a swell that was way into to receive all this foreigners yeah venezuela was and was essentially they gave up on there were arguments from the other countries correct yeah right and actually they most of their own as well and so for state it there are some exceptions but they are very skilled workers so it's. i don't see how they their region is not showing so slowly that if the right now wickman a swell or. poor what does it say to you that we're seeing you know this increasing hostility towards these migrants. it's worrying a very worrying venezuela for anyone who's been in venezuela and also has left the compound some positive residence or an embassy and actually walked on the streets

and talked to the people of minnesota one of the venezuelans are very open minded very tolerant people very read to see expressions of violence and a phobia here in venezuela as a foreigner living in venezuela i can testify to this and that was starting to see a lot of families ten minutes way hearing from from family members of friends who have emigrated out of the country and who suffered from expressions of xenophobia quite recently those one on the border with israel or any of that weekend there were a series of arrests in colombia as well for the same issue and. these that you're coming out of perry and these these these are three to a shocker in venezuela he's agreed to with disgust the fact that people are looking venezuelans and treat him differently for being venezuelans and this this is something new to venezuela society and which has received massive rejection here in venezuela charles from your vantage point i mean are we approaching a point by which borders would be closed to venezuela is that how bad it could get . look every company saw going to give thought it open to close the borders and i'm

in a refugee along with good explored nearly as well as in israel. what we're going to get at is this international community offered to soon humanitarian assistance to venezuela with no strings attached the european union has canada the us international red cross will be offered to send it to us we are descended through the process of catholic church so that there is no. one since this other countries are somehow doing evil through this system and. the government venezuela has refused to accept that is that there is no crisis there are those who manage and questions of sonia if we're talking about the humanitarian crisis could you just help our viewers to understand how dire things are for venezuelans how bad the situation is for them right now. well imagine a quandary ever a once

a very well to call on three who are now so first from blackouts. every day for a couple of hours or for more than one day or two days no no electricity no water no man these scenes no food not even kosh because when a swollen state they do all their transactions with their credit cards or using a.t.m. or money transfers or so or some in a silence that they have to go to cross the border to colombia in lot of there to buy been a swell on current city and go back to the contrary because there is a lot of cash too so this is all bearable in innovation too that the insecurity they lack of security d. in rana swellest saw it this way it is so horrible this equation is horrible what can people do there there is no future and that's why it's so that i'm arctic the

seed to asia even the hospital stay clean they don't have to mean sing or there to provide assistance to the to the to the to the sick people saw it is really very worrisome what's going on in minnesota especially because consider what witness when i was in the bus it was a very well think on three and nobody can understand what's going on right now not even there in a swell and already we have run out of time so we're going to have to leave it there thank you all so much thanks to all our guests paul dobson sonia shot and charles shapiro. and thank 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 our handle is at a.j. inside story for me. and the whole team here bye for now.

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to put pressure on iran as well beyond economic sanctions john bolton says there's a lot more to come from the u.s. as he talks iran and syria in israel. hundreds of fake web sites and social accounts shut down as tech giants say foreign hackers are taking aim at u.s. mid-term elections. and supplies for the stranded floodwaters start to fall but new dangers look for those caught off in caroline. the dramatic conclusion to two cold cases being held hundreds of kilometers apart and the u.s. could put new pressure on donald trump could also boost the investigation into alleged election meddling in virginia the u.s. president's former campaign manager paul manifold was found guilty of financial

crimes involving millions of dollars of foreign man. and in new york his long time lawyer suddenly pleaded guilty to a charges those include paying the wall for women who made claims about trump we begin with that story and kristen so to me. he was the president's fixer his longtime attorney the man who dealt with issues before they became big problems michael cohen arrived at the office of federal investigators in new york on tuesday representing potentially be biggest problem of donald trump's presidency he pleaded guilty to eight charges brought by federal prosecutors including that he paid an adult film star stormy daniels to keep quiet during trump's run for president after she claimed they had an affair the president at first denied all knowledge when asked about the payments and really feeling the three.

but in court cohen said it was at the direction of then candidate trump that he made the payment as well as one to another woman a former playboy model karen mcdougal over their alleged affair. what he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the campaign cohen's name came across the desk of special counsel robert muller during his investigation into alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia he referred what he found to prosecutors in new york and in april they instructed the f.b.i. to raid cohen's home an office in new york they seized boxes of documents including communications between donald trump and collins in a statement president trump's current attorney rudy giuliani said there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president and the government's charges against mr cohen mr collins actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over

a significant period of time but michael cohen's lawyer lanny davis said his client had testified that quote donald trump to wrecked it him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principle purpose of influencing an election if those payments were a crime for michael cohen then why wouldn't they be a crime for donald trump michael cohen now faces up to five years in prison he's a man who once said he'd take a bullet for donald trump now people are wondering how much of a mark his case will leave on the president of the united states presidents only al jazeera new york. well al is off to cohen surprise please a jury in virginia found the president's former campaign chairman guilty of eight fraud charges paul manifold now faces a long prison term as andy gallacher reports. was he was once one of the most

influential men in washington now paul man afford his facing life behind bars after a trial lasting three weeks the jury found him guilty on a charges of tax and bank fraud over the course of the trial the jury was told manifold had millions of dollars. in foreign bank accounts and paid for a lavish lifestyle with loans he lied to get. president trump was in west virginia when the verdict came down he called man a fort a good man but says the case is not about russian collusion. the place. you know. nothing like. starting. with john. fraser. the other ten charges were declared a mistrial but prosecutors may choose to retry him on a fourth at a later date trumps former campaign manager faces another trial on similar charges next month leaving some in the legal community wondering whether he might cooperate with the miller investigation they do suggest that pollyanna for it might have

greater reason to cooperate with prosecutors with the special counsel's investigation and if mr mayor ford does indeed begin to cooperate that's where mr trump faces potential problems on the front of the russian investigation despite the president's claims this trial is seen as an important test for the miller investigation the charges in this case may not have been about collusion but they came from the military mr manner for disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts he is evaluating all of his options at this point paul money for this is been a spectacular fall from grace for president trump's claims that robert muller's investigation is a witch hunt have been dealt a spectacular blow of a mile or a said nothing publicly for months but after this case he may not have to a guilty plea here is given his investigation legitimacy and that may speak volumes and gallacher al-jazeera alexandria virginia. u.s.

national security advisor john bolton says a lot more pressure will be applied on iran over its nuclear plans and its policy on syria he spoke a short time ago after three days of talks in israel. consequences of the reduction in resources available to the regime we think is already manifested in some extent in constraints on the could force in. in syria and iraq and perhaps also in its assistant to the who tees in yemen and that's very important and we're going to do other things to put pressure on iran as well beyond economic sanctions are a force that joins us now from west to resume how he talked about working with russia what sort of action is bolton hinting at that the trump administration might be thinking of taking to try and get iranian forces out of syria. well that remains very much clouded but he obviously came here to talk very much

largely about iran he said that was the preeminent discussion point in all of his negotiations with his israeli counterparts and on the issue of russia of course israel itself has been trying all sorts of diplomacy with the russian president vladimir putin to try to use russian influence inside syria to get iranian military presence either withdrawn completely or minimized or withdrawn at least from the border areas approaching the occupied golan heights and israeli territory so that is obviously something that bolton was asked about he said that his own discussions with president putin and those between the russian president and donald trump in those discussions the russian president had said that the russian interests weren't aligned with iran but russia could not by itself remove iran

completely from syria and that perhaps that something that the united states and russia could do together bolton said that very quickly after making that comment that there wasn't that that wasn't necessarily something that would be possible but obviously he will be having discussions immediately after leaving israel with his russian counterpart in geneva so on the issue of russia in syria which is a very much priority for israel he was he obviously said that the united states shared israel's concerns and also shared israel's policy when it came to the iran nuclear deal which he said it only assisted iran's wider regional ambitions a lot of effort to put a positive spin as well on the peace process not a lot of clarification though on what so-called price israel might have to pay for the trump administration's position on jerusalem right harry. well that's right and

this comes after a rally over night in west virginia given by donald trump during which he said that by taking jerusalem off the table he'd given the israelis something and that they would have to pay a high price for that and it was only natural that the palestinians could expect to be the next in line to get something so john bolton was asked about that by an israeli journalist during this news conference saying well hang on the u.s. position is always been that it was natural that jerusalem was the capital of israel why are you now saying that you want to extract a price from something that was natural both and said that it was a right and natural thing for the united states to do but that as a dealmaker president trump anyone else would expect the palestinians having lost out as he put it on that would expect to to ask ok so what's coming our way next well of course we all know that the palestinian position is one of utter rejection of this peace plan even before it's published there are some reports that it might be published in september around the united nations general assembly meeting

because largely of the declaration of jerusalem as israel's capital the moving of the u.s. embassy here and so we spoke to the senior p.l.o. member had an usher o.e. this morning and she said that the theft of jerusalem was impossible to come back from jerusalem along with the refugee issue along with the borders issue they are the three cynic or nons of any deal going forward so the palestinian position remains unchanged despite this apparent offer of some prize by don't trump which was dying old overnight all right we'll leave it that thanks so much harry for sit . zimbabwe's top court is hearing the opposition party's challenge to last month's election results opposition leader. rigged in favor of. just over fifty percent. of.

the courthouse. how's the court session going there any direction which way the judges are leaning. well proceedings have just started security is tied. behind me people are searched as they go in to bring in pens and notebooks no recording devices no phones that. put up with people can watch the proceedings as it fit inside the court today zimbabweans will get to hear what evidence the m.d.c. alliance says they have when they say that they can prove the election was stolen the m.d.c. say they have documents that show that numbers were inflated in favor of the party they say in some places the rule areas village heads were waiting or polling stations telling villages who to vote for and.